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

Post by oefrha » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 6:40 AM UTC

tome wrote: post #88

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…

Does anyone understand how OneDrive and Dropbox can be so cheap compared to S3? - 2 TB on Dropbox is £7.99 / month - 1 TB OneDrive is £59.99 / year - 1 TB on S3 is $23.99 / month How can Dropbox and OneDrive be cheaper than S3 at all , let alone after providing value add on top? Is it something to do with lower reliability and availability guarantees? Is it possible to buy direct access to their underlying storage? h…

Post by rcarmo » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 7:11 AM UTC

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…

Post by skinkestek » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 7:20 AM UTC

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #59

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #24

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Dropbox always feels like it peaked early and has steadily gotten worse as they try to add more and more features to it. > I feel like they are missing the mark when it comes to marketing to consumers here. I get the impression they're relying on name recognition and first mover advantage to keep the simple users flowing in, while all of the extra features and GUI fluff are built out to attract some other audience th…

In my impression, they are removing useful features and adding unnecessary ones. Since I joined over a decade ago, they have removed an extremely useful Public folder with the capability to generate direct links, limited the number of devices, and added a ton of features I never wanted from them, like Paper.

Post by manigandham » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 7:30 AM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #5

refulgentis wrote: post #4

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Save 60 MB on Electron, burn 10 TB of bandwidth

imagine using Dropbox with those storage requirements...

Post by toxik » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 7:33 AM UTC

renewiltord wrote: post #98

toxik wrote: post #94

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them s…

Considering the history of the Dropbox YC announcement on HN, surely you must be joking with #1. It is possibly the most famous HN incident of all time.