What are the best alternatives to Dropbox? Is google drive better?
pCloud works well for me (support for all major platforms). Google drive has no Linux support which is a deal killer for me.
The new Dropbox
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
we use Google drive it has "small packages" 100 200 GB that are really cheap.
Same. It isnt as nice as Dropbox as there doesn't seem to be any linux support, so I use Grive running as a cron job. It does run on ZFS though. I never realised Dropbox didn't. I guess that puts to rest that ocasssional nagging thought that maybe it would be worth the extra £8 or so to move to Dropbox.
Have you ever looked at Perkeep (former Camlistore)?
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The blog looks like one giant acid trip.
Totally agree. The first thing I found myself doing was staring at the silly animation on the top left for a minute, what a waste of time. EDIT: Oh god the front page is just as much of an acid trip now.
That gif on the blog made me physically ill.
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#54Me and my wife ended both ended our Dropbox Plus subscriptions last weekend (after being paying users for five years or so). As a side-effect, my mom also cancelled her subscription (since she was using it to share photos with us). The primary reasons: - Constant nagging in the user interface to upgrade to Dropbox Pro or Dropbox Business. Don't want it, don't need it. - Accumulation of a lot of UI clutter over the ye…
I'm getting tired of their constantly dropping support for older versions of MacOS (I don't upgrade MacOS often because every new version is a net productivity hit for me), and their upgrader daemon that
A. Cannot be shut off, and
B. Upgrades my Dropbox client whether I want it to or not. Even with Google's very determined auto-upgrader, I finally figured out how to shut it off. Not Dropbox.
Here we go again. Every constant-growth oriented company with happy customers eventually decides to go to war with said customers as a last-ditch effort to extract more revenue, and thus forces them to its competition.
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#55Dropbox continues to become bloated but it’s still the only client that supports delta sync across platforms. I tried switching to onedrive and google drive but they all are lacking in sync capability.
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#56Me and my wife ended both ended our Dropbox Plus subscriptions last weekend (after being paying users for five years or so). As a side-effect, my mom also cancelled her subscription (since she was using it to share photos with us). The primary reasons: - Constant nagging in the user interface to upgrade to Dropbox Pro or Dropbox Business. Don't want it, don't need it. - Accumulation of a lot of UI clutter over the ye…
>- Accumulation of a lot of UI clutter over the years. When you used to log in, you just your files. Now you get suggestions, unread comments, or whatever.
I contacted support a few weeks ago because I couldn't find the file(s) I was looking for. They keep changing the UI. They told me to use the search feature. That feature is lacking and it doesn't help that I don't know the filename since it was an uploaded photo from my phone. I left them feedback that the UX sucks and that they need to stop changing things for changing sake. Things are/have gotten worse regarding their UX. I think their devs are thinking and selling themselves on their ideas of what improvements are rather than current customers. If they want to try new things, leave the existing product alone and a launch an entirely new(er) product like DHH and basecamp do without disrupting their own existing paying customers![1]. Don't upset happy customers and give them a reason to re-evaluate your offering and other options.
[1] https://businessofsoftware.org/2015/10/david-heinemeier-hans...
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#57So they created a SPA which takes 6MB to 7MB and 220+ requests to list files in a directory?! That's a whole lot of engineering. In fact, they seem to have recreated Google Drive. SharePoint online is also the same - very long time to load.
As a user, I just want to view files in directories. The landing page should show me the last documents I worked on. That's pretty much all I need.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Totally agree. The first thing I found myself doing was staring at the silly animation on the top left for a minute, what a waste of time. EDIT: Oh god the front page is just as much of an acid trip now.
That gif on the blog made me physically ill.
The "tall letters" on the post title kind of did me in there. I don't know what they were thinking.
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#59Is there some open source version of something like rsync that is available to just sync between machines on a LAN? No cloud involved.
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#60Is there some open source version of something like rsync that is available to just sync between machines on a LAN? No cloud involved.
syncthing?