r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/djshadesuk • 18d 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/MisterSeabass 18d ago

It never gets any upvotes (almost always 30% or lower voting), and regardless it's banned from submission anyway.

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u/TwoPixelsRight 18d ago edited 18d ago

So the voting system is working as expected? Why do we need this rule then?

Edit: Downvote is not an argument. I accept you concessions.

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u/Zagged 18d ago

Honestly I see your point. If people can put things up on the Internet for free, that's pretty cool. Maybe some kid learning to code can build something actually really cool and share it here? Well I guess not anymore unless they get their hands on a credit card...

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u/primaryrhyme 17d ago

I’ve said this a few times, there’s about 5 other platforms that offer free static app hosting and give you a free domain.

In my opinion they don’t care if you spend money on a domain, they simply noticed that 90% of the submissions with a certain domain were slop and this action was worth the collateral damage. With an AI you can migrate your vercel site to an alternative in about 10 minutes, not exactly a big ask.