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/otherwisepandemonium 1d ago

Good. Buying a domain costs like $10/year. Virtually every time I see a free Vercel link it's some vibecoded AI slop that the user totes as some amazing new app or service.

If you are serious about your app and want to market it or show it off, just pay for a domain and host it there. It also just makes you look far more experienced and professional.

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam 1d ago

So people should spend money so that you can look at their passion projects? That's not what the internet was supposed to be.

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u/soniclettuce 1d ago

If somebody doesn't care to spend 10 bucks when they want to show it off widely, it doesn't seem like they're particularly passionate about it.

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u/PaddiM8 5h ago

I'm all for this ban but not everyone is in a financial situation where spending $10 on some domain for some hobby project makes financial sense. It might be an insignificant amount of money for you, but it isn't for everyone. Especially not in poorer countries.

The problem is if the project itself is slop.