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@@ -156,24 +156,6 @@ The `production` branch of BookWyrm contains a number of tools not on the `main`
 
 Instructions for running BookWyrm in production:
 
-- Get the application code:
-    `git clone git@github.com:mouse-reeve/bookwyrm.git`
-- Switch to the `production` branch
-    `git checkout production`
-- Create your environment variables file
-    `cp .env.example .env`
-    - Add your domain, email address, SMTP credentials
-    - Set a secure redis password and secret key
-    - Set a secure database password for postgres
-- Update your nginx configuration in `nginx/default.conf`
-    - Replace `your-domain.com` with your domain name
-- Run the application (this should also set up a Certbot ssl cert for your domain) with
-    `docker-compose up --build`, and make sure all the images build successfully
-- When docker has built successfully, stop the process with `CTRL-C`
-- Comment out the `command: certonly...` line in `docker-compose.yml`
-- Run docker-compose in the background with: `docker-compose up -d`
-- Initialize the database with: `./bw-dev initdb`
-- Set up schedule backups with cron that runs that `docker-compose exec db pg_dump -U <databasename>` and saves the backup to a safe location
 - Get the application code:
     `git clone git@github.com:mouse-reeve/bookwyrm.git`
 - Switch to the `production` branch