diff --git a/scripts/generate_home_page.sh b/scripts/generate_home_page.sh
index 1a591cf..5d1935b 100755
--- a/scripts/generate_home_page.sh
+++ b/scripts/generate_home_page.sh
@@ -4,15 +4,10 @@ export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/ga
 
 source /var/local/venvs/tildetown/bin/activate
 
-stats=/usr/local/bin/generate_stats
+stats=/usr/bin/stats
 template=/var/www/tilde.town/template.index.html
 mustache=/var/local/tildetown/scripts/mustache.hy
 output_path=/var/www/tilde.town/index.html
 
-# hello from datagrok
-#
-# generate_stats was breaking and outputting no lines. i dunno how to fix that,
-# but i can un-disaappear the homepage by saying "output empty json if broken"
-#
-# generate_stats | hy $mustache $template > $output_path
 ($stats || echo '{}') | hy $mustache $template > $output_path
+deactivate
diff --git a/scripts/stats b/scripts/stats
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..29e4b58
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/stats
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+cd /var/local
+
+source venvs/tildetown/bin/activate
+output=$(python tildetown/tildetown-py/stats.py)
+deactivate
+echo $output
diff --git a/scripts/town_stats.hy b/scripts/town_stats.hy
deleted file mode 100644
index 43a34e4..0000000
--- a/scripts/town_stats.hy
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
-(import [json [dumps]])
-(import [os [listdir]])
-(import [os.path [getmtime]])
-(import [datetime [datetime]])
-
-(import [sh [find facter]])
-
-;; this script emits json on standard out that has information about tilde.town
-;; users. It denotes who has not updated their page from the default. It also
-;; reports the time this script was run. The user list is sorted by public_html update time.
-
-(defn slurp [filename]
-  (try
-    (.read (apply open [filename "r"] {"encoding" "utf-8"}))
-  (catch [e Exception]
-    "")))
-
-(def default-html (slurp "/etc/skel/public_html/index.html"))
-
-(defn default? [username]
-  (= default-html (slurp (.format "/home/{}/public_html/index.html" username))))
-
-(defn bounded-find [path]
-  ;; find might return 1 but still have worked fine (because of dirs it can't
-  ;; go into)
-  (apply find [path "-maxdepth" "3"] {"_ok_code" [0 1]}))
-
-(defn guarded-mtime [filename]
-  (let [[path (.rstrip filename)]]
-    (try
-      (getmtime path)
-    (catch [e Exception]
-      0))))
-
-(defn modify-time [username]
-  (->> (.format "/home/{}/public_html" username)
-       bounded-find
-       (map guarded-mtime)
-       list
-       max))
-
-(defn sort-user-list [usernames]
-  (apply sorted [usernames] {"key" modify-time}))
-
-(defn user-generator [] (->> (listdir "/home")
-                             (filter (fn [f] (and (not (= f "ubuntu")) (not (= f "poetry")))))))
-
-(if (= __name__ "__main__")
-  (let [[all_users (->> (user-generator)
-                        sort-user-list
-                        reversed
-                        (map (fn [un] {"username" un
-                                       "default" (default? un)}))
-                        list)]
-         [live_users (-> (filter (fn [u] (not (get u "default"))) all_users)
-                         list)]
-        [data {"all_users" all_users
-               "live_users" live_users
-               "active_user_count" (-> (. (facter "active_user_count") stdout)
-                                       .strip
-                                       int)
-               "generated_at" (.strftime (.now datetime) "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
-               "num_users" (len all_users)
-               "num_live_users" (len live_users)}]]
-    (print (dumps data))))