diff --git a/site/doc b/site/doc
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..6af34c9a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/site/doc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../doc
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/site/site.hs b/site/site.hs
index 0775976a2..198293baf 100755
--- a/site/site.hs
+++ b/site/site.hs
@@ -2,41 +2,18 @@
 {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
 {- hakyll script to build hledger.org -}
 
-import Control.Applicative ((<$>))
-import Control.Monad
-import Data.List
-import Data.Monoid         (mappend)
 import Hakyll
-import System.Directory
-import System.FilePath
 import System.Process
 import Text.Pandoc.Options
-import Text.Printf
 
 
-docDir = "../doc"
-
--- hakyll's preview doesn't detect changes in symlinked files
--- symlinkDocs = do
---   filter (".md" `isSuffixOf`) <$> getDirectoryContents docDir
---     >>= mapM_ (\f -> system $ printf "[ -f %s ] || ln -s %s/%s" f docDir f)
-
-copyDocsIfNewer = do
-  fs <- filter (".md" `isSuffixOf`) <$> getDirectoryContents docDir
-  forM_ fs $ \f -> do
-    let f1 = docDir </> f
-        f2 = "."    </> f
-    t1 <- getModificationTime f1
-    t2 <- getModificationTime f2
-    when (t1 > t2) $ copyFile f1 f2
-
 symlinkProfsDir = ensureSiteDir >> system "ln -sf ../../profs _site/profs"
   where
     ensureSiteDir = system "mkdir -p _site"
 
 main = do
-  copyDocsIfNewer
   symlinkProfsDir
+
   hakyll $ do
 
     match ("images/*" .||. "js/**" .||. "robots.txt") $ do
@@ -49,14 +26,14 @@ main = do
 
     match "templates/*" $ compile templateCompiler
 
-    match ("README.md") $ do
+    match ("doc/README.md") $ do
         route $ constRoute "index.html"
         compile $
           pandocCompilerWith def def
           >>= loadAndApplyTemplate "templates/frontpage.html" defaultContext
           >>= relativizeUrls
 
-    match (("*.md" .&&. complement "README.md") .||. "0.22/*.md" .||. "0.21/*.md" .||. "0.20/*.md" .||. "0.19/*.md" .||. "0.18/*.md") $ do
+    match (("doc/*.md" .&&. complement "doc/README.md") .||. "0.22/*.md" .||. "0.21/*.md" .||. "0.20/*.md" .||. "0.19/*.md" .||. "0.18/*.md") $ do
         route   $ setExtension "html"
         compile $
           pandocCompilerWith