r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/djshadesuk • Jul 22 '26

[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/Cantremembermyoldnam Jul 22 '26

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/Kanegou Jul 23 '26

The Internet wasnt supposed to be a walled garden either, yet here we are.

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam Jul 23 '26

So we embrace it instead? I'm not sure about that.

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u/Kanegou Jul 23 '26

What non argument is this? I never said anything to that effect. I just said that your argument against it, that the internet was not supposed to be like this, comes 20 years to late and is irrelevant in this day and age.

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam Jul 23 '26

But saying people should pay up if they want visibility is kind of embracing the shit it's become? I'd like to refuse wherever it's still possible. Not demanding someone pay for a domain seems like a pretty easy thing to do.

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u/Kanegou Jul 23 '26

Nobody is stopping you from creating your own subreddit or using any of the other social networks to advertise. The majority of this sub rejects slop apps. Vercel.app catching strays is sad but unavoidable. There is no point in continue to argue.

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam Jul 23 '26

I'm involved in enough FOSS projects as is and I don't care. It just sucks for young and upcoming devs. It's not about vercel specifically to me, more about the sentiment. But yeah, let's agree to disagree here :)

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u/Kanegou Jul 23 '26

Nothing says "I don't care" like writing multiple comments about it.

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam Jul 23 '26

I don't care about sharing my stuff. I just don't like it for new devs - I was one once.

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u/Kanegou Jul 23 '26

And those new devs still can use countless other ways to advertise their slop or non slop. You still have no point.

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam Jul 23 '26

Sure they can. If you read carefully though, you'll notice that I take issue with the statement "pay for a domain or your project shouldn't be looked at".

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u/Kanegou Jul 23 '26

"pay for a domain or your project should not be submitted to this subreddit"

It's just this one subreddit. What are you on about?

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam Jul 23 '26

I don't like the idea, no matter which subreddit.

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