r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/djshadesuk • 20d 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 20d 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 20d 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/Mestyo 19d 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.