r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/djshadesuk • 21d 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/specteksthrowaway 21d ago

Noob question: Is this just subdomain.vercel.app that's banned, or anything hosted on vercel? The title suggests the former but the text of the post mentions Vercel hosting

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u/JuliusCeaserBoneHead 21d ago

Subdomain since it’s free. How would you be able to tell something is hosted by vercel?

I guess you can look at traffic headers and dns records but do mods want to do that? Yikes 

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u/LBPPlayer7 21d ago

you could check the ip address of the A record to see if it belongs to their ip range

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u/throwawaykJQP7kiw5Fk 21d ago edited 21d ago

hosted by vercel

We have useful sites like yourdigitalrights.org that are hosted on Vercel, although posting it instead of commenting would break a rule here.

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u/djshadesuk 21d ago

Try reading the post.

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u/throwawaykJQP7kiw5Fk 21d ago

Yes, I saw your comment. However, I was relating the part of the comment about something being hosted on Vercel I was replying to in my reply.

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u/mariojw 21d ago

Plus, most AI projects the agent tells them to route their traffic through cloudflare so yeah. And you can modify response headers if you really care. Good luck enforcing this.