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Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by refulgentis » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:00 AM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #5

refulgentis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Save 60 MB on Electron, burn 10 TB of bandwidth

imagine using Dropbox with those storage requirements...

The "imagine $X" construct has colloquially grown to mean "$X is irrational", which is strange to me here - the lack of binary diffing means if you change a single bit of your video editing project, the whole thing gets synced to the cloud. Dropbox is a common solution for small business VCS that's not VCS, I've seen it used for born exactly that way a half dozen times the past decade.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by refulgentis » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:02 AM UTC

elwesties wrote: post #8

refulgentis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Save 60 MB on Electron, burn 10 TB of bandwidth

I would make that tradeoff in a second.

Nonsense. You're saying you'd prefer shaving 125 Mbps off your Internet connection over 60 MB of your 8+ GB of RAM.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by tra3 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:03 AM UTC

I wonder what's stopping dropbox from revoking their API tokens. Isn't this competing directly with the "official" clients?

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by encryptluks2 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:07 AM UTC

tra3 wrote: post #13

I wonder what's stopping dropbox from revoking their API tokens. Isn't this competing directly with the "official" clients?

Why would it matter to them? They are already more expensive than other providers. Rclone connects to multiple cloud hosting solutions already too. If they revoked API access I'm pretty sure the backlash would be the final straw.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by Spooky23 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:08 AM UTC

SilverRed wrote: post #10

sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

Similar experience. I pay for the 100GB Google one plan which comes with the excellent google photos service and I went to see what dropbox offers and found their cheapest plan was extremely expensive comparatively and they offer less features. I'm just not sure how they even compete at this point when they do the same thing as every other cloud storage product but cost more. And you even have to pay extra for family…

If you make a lot of changes, the Dropbox sync works. Google drive or OneDrive choke in a variety of situations.

The product sucks in lots of other ways.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by m-p-3 » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:10 AM UTC

SilverRed wrote: post #10

sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

Similar experience. I pay for the 100GB Google one plan which comes with the excellent google photos service and I went to see what dropbox offers and found their cheapest plan was extremely expensive comparatively and they offer less features. I'm just not sure how they even compete at this point when they do the same thing as every other cloud storage product but cost more. And you even have to pay extra for family…

On the other hand, Google has a kind of pricing gap. You can either get 200GB for $CAD40/yr, and the next storage option is 2TB for $CAD140/yr.

Nothing in between..

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by lancesells » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:12 AM UTC

m-p-3 wrote: post #16

SilverRed wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar experience. I pay for the 100GB Google one plan which comes with the excellent google photos service and I went to see what dropbox offers and found their cheapest plan was extremely expensive comparatively and they offer less features. I'm just not sure how they even compete at this point when they do the same thing as every other cloud storage product but cost more. And you even have to pay extra for family…

On the other hand, Google has a kind of pricing gap. You can either get 200GB for $CAD40/yr, and the next storage option is 2TB for $CAD140/yr. Nothing in between..

Apple has the same kind of gap with iCloud.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by remram » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:13 AM UTC

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #9

sylens wrote: post #7

I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insight…

> There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions After you grow as a company and hire lots of engineers and your core product is "good enough", you have to try to pivot/stay relevant/compete/innovate I guess. Lots of manpower (I have no idea how large their engineering team is) need to be kept busy I guess?

That doesn't necessarily mean that each of those features should appear as a different row, or even be different between plans. If you can't figure out a way to make a comprehensive pricing page, the amount of features is not really an excuse.

This one is over 5 pages, with 5 different sections which don't even look triangle-shaped as you can usually expect from increasingly-priced plans.

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by CrazyCatDog » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:14 AM UTC

tra3 wrote: post #13

I wonder what's stopping dropbox from revoking their API tokens. Isn't this competing directly with the "official" clients?

He only supports platforms that Dropbox does not officially support. They won’t revoke tokens, they’ll do something far worse—they’ll hire him!

Re: Open-source Dropbox client, with multi-account, no-device-limit and M1 support

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Post by remram » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 2:15 AM UTC

refulgentis wrote: post #12

elwesties wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would make that tradeoff in a second.

Nonsense. You're saying you'd prefer shaving 125 Mbps off your Internet connection over 60 MB of your 8+ GB of RAM.

125Mbps? 60 MB?