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Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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Post by sillysaurusx »

georgel wrote: post #2

The circle is complete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

I was user 315, back when it was possible to determine your user number via the public url feature.

Is there anything this simple now? What I miss is being able to right click on an item, click "copy public URL", paste it into the browser, and get an exact copy of that item (with nothing else; no image overlays, no ads, nothing).

In the limit case you should be able to use it as a webhosting service for static files, since visiting an html page in a browser serves that file and relative links are preserved.

I guess it's a losing value proposition, but it sure would be nice.

It's unfortunate the original demo video was lost to time. I remember how astounding it was.

Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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Post by jedberg »

gigatree wrote: post #3

Board finally realized people can just do this themselves with FTP/SVN/rsync and curlftpfs

For the uninitiated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Edit: Read the comment below, it's information I should have included in the first place. It's important to note that the comment was helpful at the time, and only became a meme later.

Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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Post by giancarlostoro »

georgel wrote: post #2

The circle is complete: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

It is a darn shame, if the major OS providers didn't roll their own cloud storage, Dropbox could have been the default go-to across the board, and any other competitors that would have risen.

Re: Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

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Post by browningstreet »

Having just rsync'd 100s of GBs back down from B2 and not sure where to put it, and having lots and lots of business documents and video files to share with collaborators, I'm surprised how few competitors there are in the Dropbox space.

With their block level syncing, Dropbox is still not really replicated in the market. I'd only take issue with their price given the volumes of data I'm dealing with.

Being able to set local and not-local flags on files/folders is great.

I spent some time trying to use a few of their alternatives, plus their mobile client apps, and it's kinda just Dropbox still.

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