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Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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To the author: please use a darker font. Preferably black. I’m only in my 40’s, I don’t require glasses (yet) and I have to actively squint to read your site on mobile. Safari, iPhone. I’m pretty sure you’re under the permitted contrast levels under WCAG.

Your feedback is noted! I'll darken it down a few nootches and test it on mobile. Thanks for the feedback

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any company that does the "unlimited*" shenanigans are automatically out from any selection process I had going, wherever they use it. It's a clear signal that the marketing/financial teams have taken over the businesses, and they'll be quick to offload you from the platform given the chance, and you'll have no recourse. Always prefer businesses who are upfront and honest about what they can offer their users, in a s…

Most home broadband providers offer unlimited network traffic.

Unsure if sarcastic but most ISPs will throttle and "traffic" long before you use anything close to times .

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

#113
post #20

To the author: please use a darker font. Preferably black. I’m only in my 40’s, I don’t require glasses (yet) and I have to actively squint to read your site on mobile. Safari, iPhone. I’m pretty sure you’re under the permitted contrast levels under WCAG.

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage.

As the author I certainly apreciate this feedback

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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I can understand in theory why they wouldn't want to back up .git folders as-is. Git has a serious object count bloat problem if you have any repository with a good amount of commit history, which causes a lot of unnecessary overhead in just scanning the folder for files alone. I don't quite understand why it's still like this; it's probably the biggest reason why git tends to play poorly with a lot of filesystem too…

I think it's understandable for both Backblaze and most users, but surely the solution is to add `.git` to their default exclusion list which the user can manage.

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any company that does the "unlimited*" shenanigans are automatically out from any selection process I had going, wherever they use it. It's a clear signal that the marketing/financial teams have taken over the businesses, and they'll be quick to offload you from the platform given the chance, and you'll have no recourse. Always prefer businesses who are upfront and honest about what they can offer their users, in a s…

> It's a clear signal that the marketing/financial teams have taken over the businesses Or that they're targeting the mass retail market, where people are technically ignorant, and "unlimited" is required to compete. And statistically-speaking, is viable as long as a company keeps its users to a normal distribution.

Is there an example of a consumer facing SaaS that's been able to handle the "unlimited" in a way you'd consider positive?

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most home broadband providers offer unlimited network traffic.

Unsure if sarcastic but most ISPs will throttle and "traffic" long before you use anything close to times .

I'm unsure if you're sarcastic or not, never have I've used a ISP that would throttle you, for any reason, this is unheard of in the countries I've lived, and I'm not sure many people would even subscribe to something like that, that sounds very reverse to how a typical at-home broadband connection works.

Of course, in countries where the internet isn't so developed as in other parts of the world, this might make sense, but modern countries don't tend to do that, at least in my experience.

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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post #20

To the author: please use a darker font. Preferably black. I’m only in my 40’s, I don’t require glasses (yet) and I have to actively squint to read your site on mobile. Safari, iPhone. I’m pretty sure you’re under the permitted contrast levels under WCAG.

>I don’t require glasses (yet)

One day try throwing a pair on you'll be surprised. The small thin font is causing this not the text contrast. This and low light scenarios are the first things to go.

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

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post #20

To the author: please use a darker font. Preferably black. I’m only in my 40’s, I don’t require glasses (yet) and I have to actively squint to read your site on mobile. Safari, iPhone. I’m pretty sure you’re under the permitted contrast levels under WCAG.

I found this to be a common theme in web design a while back, and in part led to an experiment developing a newspaper/Pocket-like interface to reading HN. It's not perfect, but is easier on the eyes for reading... https://times.hntrends.net/story/47762864

Re: Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others

#120
post #20

To the author: please use a darker font. Preferably black. I’m only in my 40’s, I don’t require glasses (yet) and I have to actively squint to read your site on mobile. Safari, iPhone. I’m pretty sure you’re under the permitted contrast levels under WCAG.

Your feedback is noted! I'll darken it down a few nootches and test it on mobile. Thanks for the feedback

Please: Not "a few notches". All the way. Black. That is if you actually care if people read your posts.
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