diff --git a/web/src/App.tsx b/web/src/App.tsx
index 04bb0a5..b52261c 100644
--- a/web/src/App.tsx
+++ b/web/src/App.tsx
@@ -156,44 +156,46 @@ export default function App() {
           // balance on this page wrong and look entirely plausible doing it.
           decimals={info?.token_decimals ?? 12}
           symbol={info?.token_symbol ?? ''}
-          onClose={closePanel}
         />
       )}
 
       {route.miner && chain && (
-        <MinerPanel
-          chain={chain}
-          miner={route.miner}
-          windowName={route.window}
-          onClose={closePanel}
-        />
+        <MinerPanel chain={chain} miner={route.miner} windowName={route.window} />
       )}
 
-      <div className="two-col">
-        <section className="panel">
-          <div className="panel-head">
-            <h2 className="panel-title">The Standings</h2>
-            <span className="eyebrow">
-              last {activeWindow.blocks.toLocaleString('en-US')} blocks ·{' '}
-              {windowSpan(activeWindow.blocks, interval)}
-              {pinned.length > 0 && ` · ${pinned.length} marked yours`}
-            </span>
-          </div>
-          <Leaderboard rows={state.leaderboard} chain={chain} ready={state.ready} />
-        </section>
+      {/* A miner and an account are pages, not things opened over the board.
+          Each is somebody's own record and the whole subject of the URL that
+          reached it; leaving eleven other miners' rows underneath is the site
+          failing to notice which page it is on. A block keeps the board,
+          because a block is read *against* it — who won this one, and where do
+          they sit — and the ticker below is the row you clicked to get here. */}
+      {!route.account && !route.miner && (
+        <div className="two-col">
+          <section className="panel">
+            <div className="panel-head">
+              <h2 className="panel-title">The Standings</h2>
+              <span className="eyebrow">
+                last {activeWindow.blocks.toLocaleString('en-US')} blocks ·{' '}
+                {windowSpan(activeWindow.blocks, interval)}
+                {pinned.length > 0 && ` · ${pinned.length} marked yours`}
+              </span>
+            </div>
+            <Leaderboard rows={state.leaderboard} chain={chain} ready={state.ready} />
+          </section>
 
-        <section className="panel">
-          <div className="panel-head">
-            <h2 className="panel-title">Live Blocks</h2>
-            <span className="eyebrow">
-              {state.summary?.block_interval_seconds
-                ? `${seconds(state.summary.block_interval_seconds)} apart`
-                : 'measuring'}
-            </span>
-          </div>
-          <BlockTicker blocks={state.blocks} chain={chain} />
-        </section>
-      </div>
+          <section className="panel">
+            <div className="panel-head">
+              <h2 className="panel-title">Live Blocks</h2>
+              <span className="eyebrow">
+                {state.summary?.block_interval_seconds
+                  ? `${seconds(state.summary.block_interval_seconds)} apart`
+                  : 'measuring'}
+              </span>
+            </div>
+            <BlockTicker blocks={state.blocks} chain={chain} />
+          </section>
+        </div>
+      )}
 
       <footer className="footer">
         <span>
diff --git a/web/src/components/AccountPanel.tsx b/web/src/components/AccountPanel.tsx
index 48401d7..6e3ec26 100644
--- a/web/src/components/AccountPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/src/components/AccountPanel.tsx
@@ -148,14 +148,12 @@ export function AccountPanel({
   address,
   decimals,
   symbol,
-  onClose,
 }: {
   chain: string
   address: string
   /** The chain's token decimals; 12 on Quantus, but read rather than assumed. */
   decimals: number
   symbol: string
-  onClose: () => void
 }) {
   const [detail, setDetail] = useState<AccountDetail | null>(null)
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null)
@@ -205,9 +203,10 @@ export function AccountPanel({
             )}
           </dl>
         </div>
-        <button className="segmented panel-button" onClick={onClose}>
-          Close
-        </button>
+        {/* No close button. This is a URL somebody navigated to, not a dialog
+            that opened over something they were reading — there is nothing
+            underneath to get back to, and the back button and the chain chip
+            both already do what a close button would. */}
       </div>
 
       {error && <p className="empty">{error}</p>}
diff --git a/web/src/components/MinerPanel.tsx b/web/src/components/MinerPanel.tsx
index 86fb8dc..714a95a 100644
--- a/web/src/components/MinerPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/src/components/MinerPanel.tsx
@@ -22,12 +22,10 @@ export function MinerPanel({
   chain,
   miner,
   windowName,
-  onClose,
 }: {
   chain: string
   miner: string
   windowName: WindowName
-  onClose: () => void
 }) {
   const [detail, setDetail] = useState<MinerDetail | null>(null)
   const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null)
@@ -90,39 +88,17 @@ export function MinerPanel({
             <dd className="numeral">{miner}</dd>
           </dl>
         </div>
-        <div style={{ display: 'flex', gap: 10, alignItems: 'center' }}>
-          <button
-            className="segmented"
-            style={{
-              padding: '7px 13px',
-              font: 'inherit',
-              fontSize: 12,
-              letterSpacing: '0.1em',
-              textTransform: 'uppercase',
-              color: mine ? 'var(--accent-bright)' : 'var(--text-secondary)',
-              cursor: 'pointer',
-            }}
-            aria-pressed={mine}
-            onClick={() => toggle(miner)}
-          >
-            {mine ? '★ Yours' : '☆ Mark as yours'}
-          </button>
-          <button
-            className="segmented"
-            style={{
-              padding: '7px 13px',
-              font: 'inherit',
-              fontSize: 12,
-              letterSpacing: '0.1em',
-              textTransform: 'uppercase',
-              color: 'var(--text-secondary)',
-              cursor: 'pointer',
-            }}
-            onClick={onClose}
-          >
-            Close
-          </button>
-        </div>
+        {/* No close button: this is a URL somebody navigated to, not a dialog
+            that opened over something they were reading. The back button and
+            the chain chip both already do what it would. */}
+        <button
+          className="segmented panel-button"
+          style={{ color: mine ? 'var(--accent-bright)' : 'var(--text-secondary)' }}
+          aria-pressed={mine}
+          onClick={() => toggle(miner)}
+        >
+          {mine ? '★ Yours' : '☆ Mark as yours'}
+        </button>
       </div>
 
       {error && <p className="empty">{error}</p>}