diff --git a/locales/en-US.yml b/locales/en-US.yml
index 336bb6f03..7c0501c2f 100644
--- a/locales/en-US.yml
+++ b/locales/en-US.yml
@@ -1085,11 +1085,6 @@ migrationConfirm: "Are you absolutely sure you want to migrate your account to {
   as the account you're moving from."
 defaultReaction: "Default emoji reaction for outgoing and incoming posts"
 license: "License"
-indexPosts: "Index Posts"
-indexFrom: "Index from Post ID onwards"
-indexFromDescription: "Leave blank to index every post"
-indexNotice: "Now indexing. This will probably take a while, please don't restart
-  your server for at least an hour."
 customKaTeXMacro: "Custom KaTeX macros"
 customKaTeXMacroDescription: "Set up macros to write mathematical expressions easily!
   The notation conforms to the LaTeX command definitions and is written as \\newcommand{\\
diff --git a/packages/client/src/pages/admin/database.vue b/packages/client/src/pages/admin/database.vue
index 7222ba318..02f17db1f 100644
--- a/packages/client/src/pages/admin/database.vue
+++ b/packages/client/src/pages/admin/database.vue
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@
 				:display-back-button="true"
 		/></template>
 		<MkSpacer :content-max="800" :margin-min="16" :margin-max="32">
-			<FormButton primary @click="indexPosts">{{
-				i18n.ts.indexPosts
-			}}</FormButton>
 			<FormSuspense
 				v-slot="{ result: database }"
 				:p="databasePromiseFactory"
@@ -43,7 +40,6 @@ import bytes from "@/filters/bytes";
 import number from "@/filters/number";
 import { i18n } from "@/i18n";
 import { definePageMetadata } from "@/scripts/page-metadata";
-import { indexPosts } from "@/scripts/index-posts";
 
 const databasePromiseFactory = () =>
 	os
diff --git a/packages/client/src/pages/admin/index.vue b/packages/client/src/pages/admin/index.vue
index 4f2f1ded0..53701dcea 100644
--- a/packages/client/src/pages/admin/index.vue
+++ b/packages/client/src/pages/admin/index.vue
@@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ import * as os from "@/os";
 import { lookupUser } from "@/scripts/lookup-user";
 import { lookupFile } from "@/scripts/lookup-file";
 import { lookupInstance } from "@/scripts/lookup-instance";
-import { indexPosts } from "@/scripts/index-posts";
 import { defaultStore } from "@/store";
 import { useRouter } from "@/router";
 import {
@@ -174,16 +173,6 @@ const menuDef = $computed(() => [
 						},
 				  ]
 				: []),
-			...($i.isAdmin
-				? [
-						{
-							type: "button",
-							icon: "ph-list-magnifying-glass ph-bold ph-lg",
-							text: i18n.ts.indexPosts,
-							action: indexPosts,
-						},
-				  ]
-				: []),
 		],
 	},
 	{
diff --git a/packages/client/src/scripts/index-posts.ts b/packages/client/src/scripts/index-posts.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 94b545e90..000000000
--- a/packages/client/src/scripts/index-posts.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-import { i18n } from "@/i18n";
-import * as os from "@/os";
-
-export async function indexPosts() {
-	const { canceled, result: index } = await os.inputText({
-		title: i18n.ts.indexFrom,
-		text: i18n.ts.indexFromDescription,
-	});
-	if (canceled) return;
-
-	if (index == null || index === "") {
-		await os.api("admin/search/index-all");
-		await os.alert({
-			type: "info",
-			text: i18n.ts.indexNotice,
-		});
-	} else {
-		await os.api("admin/search/index-all", {
-			cursor: index,
-		});
-		await os.alert({
-			type: "info",
-			text: i18n.ts.indexNotice,
-		});
-	}
-}