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

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by joelrunyon » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:00 PM UTC

I dropped Dropbox because they randomly disables ALL my links without mentioning anything about it to me. I didn't find out about it until I had 300+ people email me about not being able to access a file. Even after that - you had to manually delete the old share links in an arcane way & then recreate them. Really, really terrible UI.

I use Copy.com now - clean interface, but something about their sync takes longer than it should.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by Entalpi » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:00 PM UTC

I am dropped Dropbox.

1) I know how to VPN. 2) I know how to setup a NAS. 3) BitTorrent Sync exists.

It is as easy as 1,2,3! :-)

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by toxican » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:01 PM UTC

Dropped it as soon as I heard about the appointment. Purchased some webhosting space and setup Owncloud and I haven't looked back since. Does the exact same thing and it's actually cheaper when you consider that I use the web host for other things as well.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by teekert » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:01 PM UTC

I continue to use it for work. Personally I have stopped using it but that is more because of the ease of use of Bittorrent Sync.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by pessimizer » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:02 PM UTC

ccallebs wrote: post #48

cgore wrote: post #31

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.

I agree with your sentiment. However, it wasn't her political views. It was her involvement with a fraudulent war.

ITT the lies justifying the war in Iraq are legitimate political views.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by arenaninja » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:02 PM UTC

Dropped dropbox, and stopped using Zulip

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by mynegation » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

I still use Dropbox, but I encrypt my data before it goes to their servers. I save encrypted archives of important data (duplicity with encryption key), and also use EncFS for poor man's encrypted sync (this may be a disaster waiting to happen but for now it worked pretty well for me, and of course this data is backed up elsewhere).

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by aianus » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

adwf wrote: post #83

ultramancool wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about one for "I dropped DropBox in favour of an option with client side encryption"? Wuala, SpiderOak, even GDrive/DropBox + EncFS/Ecryptfs/BoxCryptor. So many better options than DropBox for those of us with privacy concerns. And for the more DIY people, there's OwnCloud, git-annex assistant (which supports encrypted remotes!), SyncThing and TahoeLAFS. Anyone know of a good sync client for TahoeLAFS though?

Yep, dropped Dropbox for SpiderOak ages ago due to a number of really poor security failings on Dropbox's part. (Remember the day they accidentally allowed blank passwords to login to anyones account?)

When was that?

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by superbaconman » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

Day I heard she was hired I cancelled by account. Damn the data I lost.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by tomasgonz » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:03 PM UTC

lhnz wrote: post #34

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…

If power is not irrelevant to you, then politics either.