diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index d1b11f20..a0d89ee6 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -132,11 +132,17 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build WASM release with Trunk
         run: trunk build --release
 
-      - name: Upload WASM dist artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: web-dist
-          path: dist/
+      # No artifact upload. actions/upload-artifact@v4 hard-refuses on Gitea --
+      # Gitea presents as GHES and @actions/artifact v2+ aborts there
+      # (go-gitea/gitea#31256, #36024). Nothing consumes `web-dist`: it had
+      # exactly one reference in this repository, the line that produced it,
+      # and there is no download-artifact and no second workflow. The job's
+      # purpose -- proving the web build compiles -- is met by the step above.
+      # Add it back when something consumes the bundle, and decide then between
+      # actions/upload-artifact@v3 (the GHES guidance names v3.2.2 / the
+      # -node20 tag, so check the runner's node first) and the Gitea-specific
+      # christopherHX/gitea-upload-artifact@v4, which is a third-party
+      # dependency and therefore a decision, not a swap.
 
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