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

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by redidas » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:08 PM UTC

I dropped Dropbox (except for when I have to use it at work).

The tipping point for me was Condoleezza Rice. But there were other issues that were building up. It was consistently eating my laptop battery, and on my desktop with traditional hard drives, it would take forever to start up and finish indexing files.

I replaced Dropbox with a mix of things. My documents went to Google Drive. I converted my old windows desktop into a xubuntu linux home server type thing, and installed BT Sync for the other files I had to sync.

I also do plenty of other things with my home server. Really wish I set one up sooner.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by cgore » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:11 PM UTC

thomasahle wrote: post #68

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.

If any other company, that deals with our personal data, were to appoint a board member well known for being pro warrantless wiretaps, I think people would consider moving as well. The drop-dropbox.com has its arguments pretty well presented really.

You mean like all of the board members at both Apple and Google?

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by josefresco » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:11 PM UTC

Board appointees aside, I "dropped" Dropbox as my cloud backup solution because the Windows client suffered from frequent memory crashes when syncing large numbers of files.

Google Drive suffered the same crashes (it's a 32-bit memory limit thing), so I'm currently using Backblaze for entire PC backup and it's been working great.

I still maintain my free DB account, as it's the most commonly known/used "file sharing" service known to my clients.

I originally jumped from DB to GDrive because of pricing, but this was before Dropbox answered Google's price cuts with their own new tiers.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by blutgens » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:12 PM UTC

Dropbox is awesome. Everything else sucks. (Except google drive) which I don't use because a) tons of free space from dropbox due to phone purchases b) simple gui sync client that runs on anything. (yes I know about GRive, it's not the same!)

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by Touche » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:12 PM UTC

I dropped it because they are the leader in this space and have not championed an open-source technology for connecting with cloud storage providers.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by FrankenPC » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:13 PM UTC

I WAS going to drop Dropbox, then they increased my subscription to 1TB for the same money. That is just too useful to me to let go.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by FrankenPC » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:13 PM UTC

I WAS going to drop Dropbox, then they increased my subscription to 1TB for the same money. That is just too useful to me to let go.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by cacheoverload » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:13 PM UTC

I've dropped dropbox because it seems pointless without some sort of document editor.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by akulbe » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:14 PM UTC

I've got nothing against Condy. That said... why does this matter? As someone who serves on a BoD for a non-profit... isn't this just an advisory position? I don't see how someone's politics is relevant to the running of a company.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by pwnna » Wed, Oct 01, 2014, 3:15 PM UTC

gcommer wrote: post #84

Fuxy wrote: post #76

Why would i ever use Dropbox when there's a better more private option out there like btsync. All you need to do is run your own server which I already do and you basically have the same functionality.

Just a reminder that BTSync is closed source and the protocol it uses has not been released. Better FOSS versions exist - the best one that I know of (and which I currently use) is http://syncthing.net/

There's also seafile