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mattgerstman

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    This is even more impressive knowing that its artisanal code, or as we called it back then, code.

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    Comment #24498507

    Thanks so much for all the feedback! I'm signing off from answering comments.

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    Comment #24496159

    When you get a chance give this post a read, we're investing in our personal users now more than ever. The features we've announced are just the beginning.

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    Comment #24496086

    Thanks so much. We love to share how we build things with the tech community and we know the tradeoffs when we post them. We're just a bunch of people doing our best to do right by…

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    Comment #24495981

    Thanks for the kind words. I'm not at all responsible for this, but I'll pass it on to our sync team.

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    Comment #24495790

    Honestly just use GitHub. My (high level) understanding of sync is file system issues file event for every file change, we receive it, determine if its relevant, and then make the …

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    Comment #24495691

    FWIW I've passed this note along to our sync team but I don't have a ton of insight here.

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    Comment #24495679

    Thanks so much!

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    Comment #24495386

    Thanks so much! I had the realization recently that we don't talk a lot about what engineers do outside of writing code and the Plus launch was the perfect narrative to talk about …

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    Comment #24495378

    We do use storybook! We have an internal design system called DIG that may eventually be shared more publicly. Each individual feature gets a "product component library" which is a…

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    Comment #24495366

    Thanks, we love paper too!

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    Comment #24495327

    Thanks so much! We're very excited about our roadmap.

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    Comment #24495320

    This should be substantially better since we shipped our new sync engine https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/rewriting-the-heart-of-o...

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    Comment #24495306

    Click the dropbox icon, click your avatar, preferences, notifications for most in app notifications. TBH the whole point of Basic is to be a trial sku so I don't know if you can tu…

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    Comment #24495248

    I'm not totally informed on this subject, but I do know our sync team is hiring :)

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    Comment #24495227

    It's important to note that many of these companies are operating under different constraints than us. Bigger companies are able to reduce the price of storage based on it's value …

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    Comment #24495195

    Yep this is it. We need to provide more than just storage to succeed in the marketplace.

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    Comment #24495183

    API-QL is essentially a glue layer to make our internal interface, Stone, play nicely with Apollo. We might open source some pieces of it, but the vast majority of it is code gener…

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    Comment #24495163

    We get it. The simple truth is we need to provide more than just storage to succeed in the marketplace. We rewrote our sync engine recently to make things much more performant and …