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People click the upvote button at a sufficient velocity.
I'm hitting it with _extreme_ velocity and it still seems to only register as a single upvote =(
Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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#32This wouldn't happen with SFTP, CVS and a $5 VPS.
What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.
Seriously, SFTP + Syncthing + Filebrowser completely replaces Dropbox for me.
Name one feature thats not present in this stack.
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#33Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#34Ironically Twitter feed recommends me this tweet right below Dropbox tweet
https://twitter.com/ResNeXtGuesser/status/153459613350625280...
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#35Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
Dropbox is afaik the only cross platform one with support for extended file attributes like tags, comments and custom icons in macOS, which I use extensively.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
How valuable are those features after Dropbox deletes all of your data and deactivates your account?
Why can't your VPS provider do the same thing?
They typically don't spy on their customers as much as a service like dropbox does.
Before downvoting, ask yourself: When was the last time a VPS provider scanned the disk contents of their customers? And when was the last time they booted someone for using full disk encryption?
Meanwhile, dropbox proudly proclaims how they scan the contents of their users' files.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you've described is not at all an equivalent for Dropbox. There are many, many features that your stack doesn't support.
Those features are worthless if you’re entire digital storage can evaporate without any recourse.
Which definitely won't happen with a cheap VPS provider. /s
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#38Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
I have free OneDrive through my university, and I pay $99/year and I have it through work. With multiple TB available.
Yet I still use Dropbox because it’s way more usable.
Running the OneDrive agent is a hobby and it spikes my machine a few times a day. Running Dropbox is something that just works and has worked for 10 years without me ever noticing the sync app (a good thing).
I avoid Google because I wouldn’t want my gmail to turn off because of an event like this.
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#39Hopefully this will stop HNers from linking everyone ye olde "this is why Dropbox is better than your nerdass solution" comment, and hopefully it vindicates everyone over the years who countered that argument by asking what happens when Dropbox deletes your account apropos of nothing...
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Account lockouts thread are commonly upvoted, atleast partially to raise the profile high enough to force the company to do something.
I upvote them because I think they expose an important issue that we need to address.