I love Dropbox. Use it all the time without any problems.
Why we are leaving Dropbox
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#126. No client-side encryption
7. Deceptive advertising. Telling their customers that they encrypt data enroute and at rest without telling them that they use a single common password for every customer.
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#13I love Dropbox. Use it all the time without any problems.
What are you using it for? Are you part of a company that shares everything on Dropbox, and how often do you use it?
I'm also a "happy" Dropbox customer -- but I'm part of a 3-person startup and we only share relatively small files and folders. This post (and numerous others) make me think it's time to move on when we grow the team.
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#14It may be time to explain the "So What?" test of writing again.
You should ask yourself that question any time you write an article. (Or give a talk, teach a lesson...) If you gave enough information, that should sound like a stupid question. But if it sounds like something that might reasonably be asked, you forgot to communicate something important. In this case, the big missing piece of data is what they will be using instead of dropbox.
Because without that critical piece of data, this entire article can be summed up as "Dropbox sucks."
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#15I'll file this one under "cool story bro"
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#16Am I the only one who expected 5. Condoleezza Rice?
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#17I've been using copy.com for a while and I'm quite happy with it. The main reason I chose it (at the time) was 20GB for free accounts, fair storage in shared folders and pricing (I have the 250GB account).
(Disclaimer: this is a referral link that will give us 5gb https://copy.com?r=b2yUAQ ;-))
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#18I'm using dropbox + google drive (due to google docs) both home and for work and I get all of your claims. But what's the alternative? Besides google drive that has it's own issues all other solutions are less than dropbox or same with something missing (proper mobile app etc)... So what are you switching to?
> But what's the alternative?
Sounds like an opportunity.
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#19I love Dropbox. Use it all the time without any problems.
What are you using it for? Are you part of a company that shares everything on Dropbox, and how often do you use it? I'm also a "happy" Dropbox customer -- but I'm part of a 3-person startup and we only share relatively small files and folders. This post (and numerous others) make me think it's time to move on when we grow the team.
I always wondered, why do small companies use Dropbox at all?
A 1 TB NAS in RAID-1 by Synology or QNAP will cost you about 400 EUR (including VAT). That's about 9% of what the author of the article paid for some 700 GB in Dropbox. It will do everything that Dropbox does, except you can use standard protocols (SMB, AFS, WebDAV, whatever) and the data will not leave your company.
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#20Complaint #1 - They aren't releasing new features, and are spending too much time on bug fixing and performance.
Complaint #2 - It's buggy.
Oooooooooooooooook.