diff --git a/e2e/USER_STORIES.md b/e2e/USER_STORIES.md
index afbc155f..afd7567c 100644
--- a/e2e/USER_STORIES.md
+++ b/e2e/USER_STORIES.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@ The catalog e2e specs are written from. Each story is a slice of behavior a
 person can observe in the running app. Specs reference stories by stable
 id (`US-042`), so numbers are never reused or renumbered.
 
+A story is behavior someone can describe without reading the css: what a button
+does, what a feed contains, what a notification says. A layout threshold, a
+padding, a color or a wording is not one, and a change that only moves one
+belongs in the acceptance text of the story it sits under rather than in a story
+of its own. Nothing in CI runs this suite, so every spec is a cost paid by hand
+forever.
+
 **Personas** come from `e2e/harness/keys.ts`, which defines four deterministic
 identities:
 
diff --git a/e2e/specs/multiuser.spec.ts b/e2e/specs/multiuser.spec.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c02be17..00000000
--- a/e2e/specs/multiuser.spec.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-import {expect, roomPath, test, users} from "../harness"
-
-test("delivers one user's message to another user's open page", async ({seed, as}) => {
-  const scenario = await seed(({relay, user}) => {
-    const space = relay("space")
-
-    space.room("general", {name: "General"})
-    space.join(user.alice, "general")
-    space.join(user.bob, "general")
-  })
-
-  const {url} = scenario.space("space")
-  const path = roomPath(url, "general")
-
-  // Two browser contexts, two identities, one relay: bob's page is already listening when alice
-  // sends, so the message reaches him over the wire rather than out of a shared repository.
-  const alice = await as(users.alice, path)
-  const bob = await as(users.bob, path)
-
-  await expect(bob.getByRole("link", {name: "General"})).toBeVisible()
-
-  await alice.locator(".chat-editor [contenteditable=true]").pressSequentially("anyone there?")
-  await alice.locator(".chat-editor [contenteditable=true]").press("Enter")
-
-  await expect(alice.getByText("anyone there?")).toBeVisible()
-  await expect(bob.getByText("anyone there?")).toBeVisible()
-})
diff --git a/e2e/specs/space.spec.ts b/e2e/specs/space.spec.ts
index 54ea5d3c..4fc6b6ce 100644
--- a/e2e/specs/space.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/specs/space.spec.ts
@@ -1,30 +1,5 @@
-import {HOUR, MINUTE} from "@welshman/lib"
 import {expect, roomPath, test, users} from "../harness"
 
-test("renders a seeded space, its rooms and its messages", async ({seed, as}) => {
-  const scenario = await seed(({relay, user, at}) => {
-    const space = relay("space")
-
-    space.room("general", {name: "General"})
-    space.room("random", {name: "Random"})
-    space.join(user.alice, "general")
-    space.join(user.bob, "general")
-    space.message(user.bob, "general", "morning all", at(2, HOUR))
-    space.message(user.alice, "general", "morning!", at(90, MINUTE))
-  })
-
-  const {url} = scenario.space("space")
-  const page = await as(users.alice, roomPath(url, "general"))
-
-  // The room the user belongs to and the one they don't are both advertised by the relay, so
-  // both appear in the space menu.
-  await expect(page.getByRole("link", {name: "General"})).toBeVisible()
-  await expect(page.getByRole("link", {name: "Random"})).toBeVisible()
-
-  await expect(page.getByText("morning all")).toBeVisible()
-  await expect(page.getByText("morning!")).toBeVisible()
-})
-
 test("opens the space menu in a drawer on a phone", async ({seed, as}) => {
   const scenario = await seed(({relay, user}) => {
     const space = relay("space")
@@ -76,30 +51,3 @@ test("opens the space menu in a drawer on a phone", async ({seed, as}) => {
 
   await expect(drawer.getByRole("link", {name: "General"})).toBeVisible()
 })
-
-test("keeps the drawer's space rail free of a horizontal scrollbar", async ({seed, as}) => {
-  const scenario = await seed(({relay, user}) => {
-    const space = relay("space")
-
-    space.room("general", {name: "General"})
-    space.join(user.alice, "general")
-  })
-
-  const {url} = scenario.space("space")
-
-  // No touch, so the app is not in mobile mode and hover tooltips are live. The rail scrolls
-  // vertically, which makes it scroll horizontally too, and a tooltip is 140px wider than it is.
-  const page = await as(users.alice, roomPath(url, "general"), {
-    context: {viewport: {width: 390, height: 844}},
-  })
-
-  await page.getByRole("button", {name: "Open space menu"}).click()
-
-  const rail = page.locator(".drawer .primary-nav")
-
-  await expect(rail).toBeVisible()
-
-  const overflow = await rail.evaluate(el => el.scrollWidth - el.clientWidth)
-
-  expect(overflow).toBe(0)
-})