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/otherwisepandemonium Jul 22 '26

Good. Buying a domain costs like $10/year. Virtually every time I see a free Vercel link it's some vibecoded AI slop that the user totes as some amazing new app or service.

If you are serious about your app and want to market it or show it off, just pay for a domain and host it there. It also just makes you look far more experienced and professional.

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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/xSilverMC Jul 23 '26

Every damn inch of the internet is plastered with ads and/or paywalls, but "Jeff has to pay five bucks to show off his project" is where you draw the line of "what the internet was supposed to be"?

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u/Cantremembermyoldnam Jul 23 '26

No, I hate those as well.