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Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by thayne on Friday January 16, 2026 @01:45PM (#46650278)
They can stay open source, but stop putting any effort into supporting deploying to cloudflare's competitors, including accepting PRs for such improvements.

Or they could add features that only work if you deploy via cloudflare.

I also take anything said in an acquisition announcement with a grain of salt. It is pretty common for companies to make changes they said they wouldn't a few years after an acquisition.

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by mynameisvlad on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:08PM (#46650681)
Once again, it’s a static site builder. How, exactly, would they “stop supporting deploying to cloudflare’s competitors”? Be specific.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by HumanOstrich on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:39PM (#46651101)
The same ways Vercel makes it harder to deploy Next.js sites to competitors or for self hosting.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by fady0 on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:33PM (#46651835)
Next.js isn't just a static site generator.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by HumanOstrich on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:56PM (#46652098)
Neither is Astro. Not sure what your point is.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by mynameisvlad on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:33PM (#46653114)
Yes it is. All of the providers support “Static”, which literally means uploading /dist to your provider of choice.

They also have three pages worth of deployment adapters for one line deployment on many platforms, including many built by the community. https://astro.build/integrations/?search=&categories%5B%5D=a...

Did you even bother to look at their site or even better the guides I posted upthread or just decide to pull that out of your ass?

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by HumanOstrich on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:40PM (#46653192)
Did YOU even bother to look at their site? They support more than static generation, including SSR and even API endpoints. That means Astro has a server that can run server-side (or serverless) to do more than static site generation, so it's not just a static site generator either.

And yes I can see you're posting the same lie all over the comments here.

Stop being a potty mouth.

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by theturtletalks on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:36PM (#46652550)
Vercel does not make Next.js hard to deploy elsewhere. Next.js runs fine on serverful platforms like Railway, Render, and Heroku. I have run a production Next.js SaaS on Railway for years with no issues.

What Vercel really did was make Next.js work well in serverless environments, which involves a lot of custom infrastructure [0]. Cloudflare wanted that same behavior on CF Workers, but Vercel never open-sourced how they do it, and that is not really their responsibility.

Next.js is not locked to Vercel. The friction shows up when trying to run it in a serverless model without building the same kind of platform Vercel has.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIVL4JMqRfc

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by NicoJuicy on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:59AM (#46656773)
So it is vendor locked by Vercel. That's why there is OpenNext - https://opennext.js.org/
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by philipallstar on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:04PM (#46660920)
How is it vendor locked?
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by NicoJuicy on Saturday January 17, 2026 @07:15PM (#46663536)
Recent features are more dependent on Vercel and it's OpenNext that makes it platform independent with adapters.
Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro by Capricorn2481 on Saturday January 17, 2026 @03:44AM (#46656347)
Can you describe what you mean here? Because I have heard this about 100 times and never understood what people mean when they say this. I am hosting a NextJS site without Vercel and I had no special consideration for it.