Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by cgore » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views. This kind of crap is what Fox News uses to claim all liberals are jack-booted fascists just waiting to setup USSR v2.0 here in America.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by eli » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

motoboi wrote: post #10

I dropped Dropbox for Google Drive long time ago.

I like Google's pricing a lot better, but it really does not deal with locking/conflicts as well as Dropbox.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by mikeash » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

fennecfoxen wrote: post #24

mbillie1 wrote: post #20

I left Dropbox for Copy solely because of the appointment of Condoleezza Rice.

Pluralism is dead.

Pluralism does not require that you continue to patronize a business whose conduct you disagree with.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by lhnz » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

I continue to use Dropbox and I'm pro the appointment of Condoleezza Rice as for the sake of our industry it is wise for us to have better political links to the US government.

(Politics is irrelevant to me, but power is not. The government can already twist your arm; being on first name's basis with somebody important will be invaluable.)

Edit: I thought we could openly state our opinions, but it seems I am getting punished with downvotes. Editing again because it's now going the other direction, but my point still stands: don't downvote or upvote just to normalise your own political beliefs.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by Trufa » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

We've switched to owncloud not for Condoleezza Rice in particular but for general privacy concerns, the possibility to self host and pricing issues.

We really recommend the product, it may have some disadvantages to dropbox but it's very very usable, evolving and we're very happy about it.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by icebraining » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

atemerev wrote: post #28

I support Condoleeza Rice and GOP, but that wasn't enough for me to start using Dropbox — Google Drive is fine for me. Not everybody is left-leaning here.

Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by juandazapata » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:36 PM UTC

Dropped it for a while after the appointment. Got back to it because I was missing the cool integrations with Mailbox and iPhone camera.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by Koldark » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:37 PM UTC

While I use it, I don't USE it. I have some apps that still use Dropbox for backup/syncing, but otherwise I don't store files in Dropbox.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by tonylemesmer » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 2:38 PM UTC

gherkin wrote: post #15

I leave my old data in Dropbox since it's a pain to transfer gigabytes of cloud storage, and I don't have to look for it since I already know where it is. My new data is synced with various things like Owncloud, Cozy, Syncthing, or BitTorrent Sync depending on what the data actually is.

ditto.