diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index d2a4cf0d31..8b13789179 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-[submodule "extern/shiny"]
-	path = extern/shiny
-	url = git://github.com/scrawl/shiny.git
+
diff --git a/extern/shiny b/extern/shiny
deleted file mode 160000
index f17c4ebab0..0000000000
--- a/extern/shiny
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit f17c4ebab0e7a1f3bbb25fd9b3dbef2bd742536a