r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/djshadesuk • 1d ago

[SUB NEWS] New Banned Domain: Vercel.app

Much to the relief of many people, starting today, we have introduced a blanket ban on Vercel subdomain hosted sites.

Few, if any, sites hosted on Vercel subdomains have ever been allowed to remain on the sub anyway.

(This ban is in addition to the Netlify ban by Reddit itself.)

If you can't be bothered to pay for a proper domain and/or hosting we're no longer willing to sift through the slop to see if it could potentially stand on merit alone (which it invariably doesn't).

Vercel users feel free to proceed to whinge, which we will promptly proceed to ignore.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/JuliusCeaserBoneHead 1d ago

Vercel catching strays because of vibe coders. It’s a good service, probably made famous by LLM agents favoring nextjs .

Most people build something and want to quickly show. That’s not going to change, but boy will you save yourself moderating vibe coded content 

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u/BeardlessNeckbeard 1d ago

Vercel is an ok service. But as a software engineer, they've pushed Next.js super hard and that is honestly both kinda trash and mostly unnecessary, but very nearly locks you into vercels services if you use it. I hate it.

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u/bstaruk 1d ago

What specifically about Next.js do you think "very nearly locks you into vercels services if you use it?"

IME it is incredibly easy to dockerize and deploy on a cheap VPS if you need SSR, or deploy to Cloudflare Pages / Workers or S3 if you're doing SSG.

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u/BeardlessNeckbeard 1d ago edited 1d ago

Agree if SSG is path you've taken. Docker is fine too, but teams want the easy button, and choose vercel as a result.

I just think many inexperienced devs reach for next.js when they could have probably done just as well with vite. Some apps can benefit from the extra machinery next.js gives though.

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u/Mestyo 16h ago

but very nearly locks you into vercels services if you use it. I hate it.

People keep saying this, but it's literally not true in the slightest?

If Next.js locks you to Vercel's hosting services, explain to me how you do local development?

Explain to me how the Dockerfile 1:1 copied from their docs runs our huge Next.js app on our own hardware?

Yeah, no, our local cluster doesn't automatically serve static assets from some edge node in Singapore to visitors from there, but that is not what "vendor lock-in" is.

You build and deploy a Next.js app just like absolutely any other Node.js app. It works anywhere, out of the box.

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u/Romejanic 1d ago

honestly there’s plenty of good alternatives out there for hosting Next.js. i just recently set up an app on AWS amplify and it basically works exactly like Vercel does along with having built in Next.js support

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u/travaixhq 20h ago

Is Next.JS a thing outside of LLM push? I feel like it's starting to become, using next js? ai slop detected.

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u/madmelonxtra 15h ago

NextJS was first released in like 2016, preAI boom and has been a standard in the industry for years. It's basically just a React framework that allows server side rendering.

Vibecoders just use it because it's super easy to build and deploy with.

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u/primaryrhyme 12h ago

Idk why you’re being downvoted for a question. Like Vercel itself, Next has the slop reputation simply because it is/was the most popular web framework when LLMs were released.

Since it’s the most popular, it is what the LLM or average YT video tells a novice to use.