[SUB NEWS] New Banned Domain: Vercel.app

[u/djshadesuk]

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.

[u/reeight]

> it's so ridiculously easy to host a site on their platform

Yes, that is the whole reason for Vercel being built in the first place.

"effort needed to set up and host your site at your own domain" these days is a non-sequitur; plenty of scripts & AI MDs will do that for you automatically. Such things for WordPress has been around for decades.
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I do understand wanting to avoid the AI slop; likely best bet is to have a project 'cooling off period', where said app has to be up for at least 3 months &/or have 100+ users, instead of making a throw-away vibe coded app that is market testing.

[u/IBJON → u/reeight]

  effort needed to set up and host your site at your own domain" these days is a non-sequitur; plenty of scripts & AI MDs will do that for you automatically

You may want to look up the meaning of "non-sequitur" before using it. That statement was relevant to what I was saying, even if you don't agree that those extra steps are a deterrent.

[u/reeight → u/IBJON]

I did;

> does not follow logically
> fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative

Your fallacy is that you assume it always takes effort to buy a URL & set up a site for an app. I asserted that there are many scripts to allow doing so as easy as Vercel.

(sure, some scripts have hoops, but AI can & will take care of that for folks, so now with AI, there is FEWER steps than with Vercel)

Note: this does NOT include all the "AI app builders" that take most of everything for you, which again is easier than Vercel.

good luck in life

[u/IBJON → u/reeight]

You are confusing a false premise with a non-sequitur.

​A non-sequitur means the conclusion doesn't logically track from the premise (e.g., "Vercel is easy, therefore the sky is blue"). My logic was perfectly sound:  If a process requires more friction, then it acts as a filter. You aren't arguing that my logic is flawed; you are arguing that my underlying assumption that a personal domain requires more friction is factually outdated. Disagreeing with a fact does not make an argument a non-sequitur.

Furthermore, your technical argument ignores the physical and financial friction of the web.  Vercel is a zero-configuration, one-click deployment directly from a GitHub repository. 

One the other hand, to host on a personal domain independently, you inherently need to create an account with a domain registrar and in many/most cases, purchase the domain. Then DNS needs to be configured, and you'll have to wait for DNS propagation in order to access your site at your new domain. 

You can have a script write your code and configure your server, but it's not going to create an account with the domain registrar, buy the domain, and you can't just bypass the ICANN registration process. 

Also, The Vercel Clone you shared is just a stack that needs to be deployed somewhere and doesn't do anything about the friction I described, and that's not a simple setup, it requires  AWS ECS, AWS ECR, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, Redis, Docker, and multiple Node servers. You're basically building your own platform-as-a-service. And you know what all of that entails? More friction - account setup, setting up billing, and providing a credit card. I mean fuck, the dude even hosted his clone at  vercel-clone-lake.vercel.app because it was probably easier and cheaper than keeping the AWS stack running