Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
Syncthing is a great FOSS alternative
Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would argue that "failing" to interpret sarcasm in this context is generally the fault of the person employing sarcasm. With none of the other cues that are available IRL (tone of voice, body language, facial expression, etc.) there's very little to tell a reader what is meant to be taken literally, versus taken as sarcasm. So yeah, if a writer doesn't include /s or ⸮ or whatever, that's on them if their words are…
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What evidence is there that "everybody" else did "get it"? And what does that even have to do with what I just said? Choosing to communicate poorly is a bad decision, even if some people happen - by chance - to understand you correctly in spite of that bad decision.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Because they have context that I don't? Because they quickly scan down to other comments and see the people explaining the joke? And not everyone else "got the joke". I'd assume many folks didn't get it, but didn't post.
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Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#114Reminds me of an incident we had with Dropbox a decade ago. They deleted some niche accounting software (custom developed by us) from our Dropbox account, plus their own log files covering those deletions. Then played ignorant.
We learned the lesson, and never again trusted Dropbox, for anything.
(Best guess - a would-be client got pissed when software which they'd never paid for lacked a feature, and told Dropbox a story.)
EDIT: Only executables & related distribution files were on Dropbox, not any source code. We lost nothing...except our trust in Dropbox.
EDIT2: Yes, as several others have kinda pointed out, this incident was a collision between (a) naive human expectations (of high-skill, high-touch, highly-invested customer service for such situations) and (b) the actual business model of any huge / cheap or free / convenient cloud provider of X (plus just "internet reality"). Sadly, I don't see that either (a) or (b) has changed in the past decade.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#115Are people still using dropbox? I thought other integrated service such as google drive and onedrive would have drove dropbox to the grave
It's the only cloud service that works on all platforms and not trying to promote their own file formats
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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#117Is that why something like IPFS, Skiff, etc exists to avoid this?
[0] https://ipfs.io
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
700 million people use them, and 17 million are on a paid plan. I still use Dropbox, because I don't trust that I'd be able to reach a helpful human at Google should anything happen to my Google account.
700M, is that active users? Or does my old account I haven't touched in forever counts?
we may have different account types but they started wiping inactive accounts a while back. I never installed the client on my computer though, so that probably didn't help.
Re: Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
#119ArDrive could be a viable alternative, because it stores data permanently.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because they have context that I don't? Because they quickly scan down to other comments and see the people explaining the joke? And not everyone else "got the joke". I'd assume many folks didn't get it, but didn't post.
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