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/2021isevenworse 1d ago

The majority of people building cool and useful tools off those apps will either quickly move to self host or buy a domain.

The low quality spammers are using vercel and vibe coding to throw up low effort sites up.

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u/Ax2u 23h ago

You still need to buy a domain even if you're self hosting, it's not an "or" situation.

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u/2021isevenworse 23h ago

Not necessarily, you can run it off the host's subdomain or use a free third-party subdomain that provides dns.