Google's version (photos.google.com) is great. I love the auto-generated albums, animated gifs and movies. It's also very easy to share and create group albums.
Dropbox Drops Photo Galleries
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#12I don't think the consumer space is something Dropbox is really interested in. I don't blame them and they probably have the numbers to back up their decision to drop photo galleries.
I thought Carousel was going to be a big success[1] but it didn't hit the mark like I suspected. Even if it did I doubt it would generate any meaningful revenue for them.
Google has figured out the consumer photo space with Google Photos. Their general approach was simply better than Carousel which was too focused on socializing. Even there they would have been outdone by Google Photos; not to mention the crazy AI which comes along with Google Photos.
Shameless plug for an open source EXIF-based photo workflow automation tool[2][3] I wrote and used with Dropbox but now use with Google Drive / Google Photos / Synology.
[3] http://github.com/jmathai/elodie
[2] https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...
[1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/thoughts-on-dropbox-carousel-e5a...
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#13Funny, it seems that it has been a feature since the first day. Just yesterday I watched this [1] first demo of dropbox which notably mentioned the feature
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#14Trust the cloud they said, it's always there they said. In all seriousness, the need for local, speedy, transparent and ubiquitous data redundancy is still there and if anything growing. Consumers want a 'refrigerator' of data - be it documents, photos, etc. Buy, set and forget. Huge opportunity there.
I've started using backblaze's b2 for this sort of stuff
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#15Drobox should focus on not dropping their user's files. I've witnessed it twice. Rip my honeymoon pics.
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#16Dropbox lost me when they closed Carousel. I don't understand why this space is so hard.
Nobody wants to pay.
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#17Google's version (photos.google.com) is great. I love the auto-generated albums, animated gifs and movies. It's also very easy to share and create group albums.
I couldn't stand how it used to recommend uploading after taking some snaps. For galleries, I've found https://github.com/wavexx/fgallery works well.
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#18What will be the next thing removed? Linux? Syncing? I mean I almost cancelled when the public folders were shut down. We tried Dropbox for business but after it not working out we had 50,000 files deleted at random and I had to restore them, one at a time...
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#19Well that makes choosing Google Drive a lot easier
Last time I checked Google Drive's client was a few steps behind Dropbox's. Is this still the case? I think at some point Google did not have a Linux client and I know the UI for OSX didn't look or feel as native as Dropbox did. However it has been a long time since I tried it out.
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#20Trust the cloud they said, it's always there they said. In all seriousness, the need for local, speedy, transparent and ubiquitous data redundancy is still there and if anything growing. Consumers want a 'refrigerator' of data - be it documents, photos, etc. Buy, set and forget. Huge opportunity there.
Basically, AWS S3 without transfer fees. It's near perfect, but has the slight negative that your image may get linked on a popular site (or maliciously downloaded) and suddenly you owe thousands through no fault of your own.