diff --git a/.changeset/deploy-main-on-release.md b/.changeset/deploy-main-on-release.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7cdb26c88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/deploy-main-on-release.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"nostream-website": patch
+---
+
+Website deploy workflow fix: the deploy queue is job-scoped so relay releases can't displace a pending website deploy (measured: the nostream@3.5.1 release run was cancelled with zero jobs at the workflow-level concurrency group, before its job-level `if` could skip it). The checkout stays on the triggering `nostream-website@` tag, which the `website` environment's branch policy admits — the deployed build is exactly the released commit.
diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy-website.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy-website.yml
index ec0363792..5eac20646 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/deploy-website.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy-website.yml
@@ -12,12 +12,16 @@ on:
       - published
   workflow_dispatch:
 
-concurrency:
-  group: deploy-website
-  cancel-in-progress: false
-
 jobs:
   deploy:
+    # Concurrency lives on the job, not the workflow: a relay release
+    # (v* tag) fails the if below and must not enter this deploy queue,
+    # where it could replace a queued website deploy. Measured: the
+    # nostream@3.5.1 release run (38845857055) was cancelled with zero
+    # jobs at the workflow-level group, before the job if could skip it.
+    concurrency:
+      group: deploy-website
+      cancel-in-progress: false
     # workflow_dispatch ignores every on: filter — a manual run must not
     # publish a non-main branch to production, so dispatch stays main-only.
     if: >-
@@ -31,6 +35,11 @@ jobs:
     permissions:
       contents: read
     steps:
+      # Checkout gets the release event's default: the tag that triggered the
+      # run (refs/tags/nostream-website@X.Y.Z). The website environment's
+      # branch policy admits nostream-website@* — every release deploy since
+      # 1.1.1 has run on the tag ref — so the build is exactly the released
+      # commit, even if main has advanced by the time the job starts.
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v3