i had to use it once to after this to get a big repository of fonts. aside from that, fuck dropbox
Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#142I dropped Dropbox when it was only giving me like 5GB of storage, and my Onedrive had like 1TB due to an Office 365 Home subscription. They waited FAR too long to upgrade their storage space.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#143This poll is a spectacular example of selection bias, and the uselessness of polls. There's not a chance in hell that 20% of active Dropbox users have stopped using it, even among tech circles.
I would be amazed if even 20% knew about this in the first place, and amazed if as much as 1/10 of those people truly stopped using Dropbox.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#144Why 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.
How is btsync (closed source, possibly giving access to all your data to bittorrent.com) different from dropbox (closed source, storing your data on ec2)?
The protocol is open source and as far is i know you don't see it sending your secret key to some shady servers without permission at the same time the data is constantly in your possession be that one of your servers or your clients.
I admit that the client being closed source is not ideal however i would still call it more private then Dropbox or Google Drive.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#145I'm a casual user and still use it.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#146I'm a casual user and still use it.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#147This poll is a spectacular example of selection bias, and the uselessness of polls. There's not a chance in hell that 20% of active Dropbox users have stopped using it, even among tech circles. I would be amazed if even 20% knew about this in the first place, and amazed if as much as 1/10 of those people truly stopped using Dropbox.
No one is claiming that this is a scientific poll. You'd have to be naive to assume that the results could be generalized to the population at large. That doesn't mean this poll is useless.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#148I did, and then I reinstalled it when I saw that it's the only thing that works.
Alternatives aren't as good as dropbox. Google drive is a close second, but without official linux client it's borderline useless to me - also their photo backup system is too complicated with g+, private/public albums, sharing, galleries etc and I don't want to spend time figuring it out when I just want simple photo backup service that I enable with one click.
I don't want spend time setting up my own servers, I don't want to use beta software, I don't want buggy 3rd party software, I don't want to compile stuff from sources.
I want to install something that works out of the box and is cross platform, and right now dropbox is literally the only option there is.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#149I 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…
You make a claim that, it is wise for us to have more political links to the US government. but you fail to explain why. Perhaps that's the source of some downvotes. You also write, Politics is irrelevant to me which demostrates that your 'opinion' comes from a place of indifference, perhaps another reason for downvotes.
> You make a claim that [...] but fail to explain why
> demostrates that your 'opinion' comes from a place of indifference,
> perhaps another reason for downvotes.
Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
#150This poll is a spectacular example of selection bias, and the uselessness of polls. There's not a chance in hell that 20% of active Dropbox users have stopped using it, even among tech circles. I would be amazed if even 20% knew about this in the first place, and amazed if as much as 1/10 of those people truly stopped using Dropbox.
No one is claiming that this is a scientific poll. You'd have to be naive to assume that the results could be generalized to the population at large. That doesn't mean this poll is useless.
Yes it does. It's a poll of all the people who chose to do this poll.
I suspect that is massively biased towards people who did drop Dropbox.
At the very least the results useless unless we can estimate the self-selection bias.