It seems, time to use Amazon Drive: $12 for 100Gb annual. I was dropbox paying customers for years but stopped my subscription in 2016 in favor of Google Photos and iCloud. I realized there's nothing to store there other than a general photos/videos, all my docs takes less than a few gigabytes of data. Also I was changed for nothing, like restore file deleted a minute ago.
Dropbox adds a device limit to free accounts
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
There has been several things: • Dropbox has failed to improve their offering and even for a paying customer you do not get anything more for your money today than you were getting several years ago. That is not objectively a bad thing, I mean a spoon has hardly evolved in hundred of years and is still worth every penny. But this is HN and that's a bit of a sin around here. • In search of profitability Dropbox has us…
I think you could say the same thing about GMail. It looks and works the same way as it did 15 years ago. At times, less is more and feature creep ends up being like Microsoft Outlook - bloated, slow and frustrating to use. I don't love my set of spoons like I love Dropbox, Digital Ocean, Eames Lounge Chair, Sublime Text/Merge and Teenage Engineering synthesizers. There are a handful of companies that give you immens…
Gmail changed a lot and its new design is just great although some people might disagree with me. It’s also free.
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#44I'm a little sad that there's no low price offering comparable to Google drives 2$/100GB. I just don't need a TB of personal space but I like the dropbox client a lot better. Especially because of linux support and for some reason syncing seems to be significantly faster.
Exactly same feeling. I’d like to know what is the argument against this pricing model because I’m pretty sure they have considered or reviewed different pricing models.
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#45"Devices" are both PCs and smartphones, is that correct?
I'd assume so, given the URL itself is " https://www.dropbox.com/help/account/computer-limit"
Considering smartphones don't even sync anything by default, why should they be counted as devices. The app is just a glorified website wrapper.
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#46I don't understand the Dropbox negativity on HN. I've used it since 2010 and it has provided me with incredible value. I used to have free service for documents but my library of data grew larger. I signed up for their $10/month program without a hitch and have been a paying user for years. You get a terabyte of space. I got rid of NAS backups and I have selective sync enabled on folders that I need synced. Large fil…
>without excessive nags, ads or annoyances.
I have slightly less data than the free limit and I'm getting a popup urging me to switch to the paid version almost constantly. I don't even bother to close it anymore, so it just sits there in the corner blocking a part of my screen.
Re: Dropbox adds a device limit to free accounts
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd assume so, given the URL itself is " https://www.dropbox.com/help/account/computer-limit"
Considering smartphones don't even sync anything by default, why should they be counted as devices. The app is just a glorified website wrapper.
Exactly. We've been waiting for years for a real Dropbox client for smartphones, and now this.
I think you can you can activate sync for individual files. But as you have to activate this for each file individually, this it somewhat defeats the point. There are more options in the pro version, but why then count it towards the limit for free users.
I hardly even use dropbox on mobile anyway, it just happens to be one of the most convenient ways to transfer pdfs to my iPad.
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#48> If you're a Basic user and you linked more than three devices prior to March 2019, all of your previously linked devices will remain linked, but you can’t link additional devices.
For how long will the previously linked devices remain linked...in other words, when will Dropbox force basic plan users to reduce the count to three? I foresee that happening in the future.
And what does this mean for people who change devices (like get a new phone to replace the old one)? Do they have to use the same device name or can they unlink the older device and link the new device in its place? This page does not talk about this scenario.
Seems like it's time to move out of Dropbox.
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#49What is dropbox basic? I see no explanation anywhere. It's been ages since I visited dropbox but my god how things have changed. Every flow and part of their website is about converting people to paid.
It's the free plan where you get 2GB or whatever, depending on when you joined and any freebies you got through referrals and/or contests.
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#50I've been using free Dropbox for a long time. After hitting my storage limits about year ago, I started learning about alternatives for the paid plans. Ended up with self hosted Nextcloud ( https://nextcloud.com/ ), which is open source. Been super happy with Nextcloud, would definitely recommend it for anyone who isn't fully happy with Dropbox. The clients for macOS and iOS are not as polished as Dropbox and many ap…
> I've managed to find workarounds for everything except 1Password
I haven't personally used it, but I've seen Bitwarden being highly recommended here. It's free and open source. It has a free option (with an account on bitwarden.com), a paid hosting option (with an account on bitwarden.com) and also a self-hosting option.