Well at least it’s more upfront and sincere than some of the cut backs that have been happening.
Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
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Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get what you're saying but "greed" is not the way I would put it. Look at their financials, 2020 is the first year in their history in which they will have been profitable at all. I think as consumers we're starting to get totally unrealistic expectations about what kinds of services small companies (ie. not behemouths like Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be able to provide to everyone for free. With that said, ye…
> 2020 is the first year in their history in which they will have been profitable at all. That's because they are absolutely bloated company given the relatively simple service they provide. In 2019, they employed 2300 people.
Yep, Dropbox created a nifty file sharing tool that a handful of devs should be able to support, but instead of keeping the team small they decided to go all "Big Enterprise Saas IPO" on us.
Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#143Was the COO fired? It sounds like she was, reading this article.
Is this a move to further reduce cost by rehiring in less-expensive locations? I imagine engineering functions will also be affected.
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#144COBRA? COBRA is a sad expensive joke
Out of curiosity, is there something lower cost/better that employees who have recently quit or been laid off should look into?
Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
The company is nowhere near failing. It's just not necessary to be as big as it is. Dropbox still has the best sync technology by far, however they failed to really capitalize on a single market. The consumer side cares more about value and it's hard to compete with Microsoft/Apple/Google while the business side is already well-served by Box.com. I still think there's a good opportunity if they can build on storage t…
I can't talk about GDrive or iCloud. However, window's cloud storage is REALLY good. Far better than dropbox IMO. It actually surprised me how seamless it worked on my new laptop. Everything just worked out of the box, the only thing I had to do was provide my windows credentials (benefits of that sort of integration). That being said, I've not tried to access those same files from my phone. Maybe that's worse. Dropb…
> how seamless it worked on my new laptop. Everything just worked out of the box.
All the other sync / backup apps also work that way after installation.
I actually dislike Onedrive web interface look compared to the top competitors. Photo view often appears buggy when scrolling down (outlook.com file view also has problems). Sharing folders/files as a public link gives full access by default.
Both web Outlook and Onedrive do not seem to have received much updates in the past few years.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you use as an alternative to Dropbox? I haven't found anything that works as well across multiple platforms. I really hate all the feature bloat in it, which I never use, and weird decisions like dropping non-ext4. But still, for basic file syncing it seems hard to beat.
I'm very happy with Tresorit - https://tresorit.com
It's quite expensive though
Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#147I was worried this was another tech Trump ban.
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#148Feels like they're setting up for an acquisition.
Re: Dropbox to cut 11% of its global workforce
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
My use case maybe different from yours but GDrive has worked well for me.
The others are generally not supported on Linux. Dropbox has a cli client here that mostly works. At least if we are talking Google/Microsoft. Or the companies are small enough to go under overnight and leave me in a lurch
Insync works well for Google Drive on Linux.
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#150COBRA? COBRA is a sad expensive joke
Healthcare needs to be disconnected from the employer. Public option and private and all healthcare benefits need to go to salary. It would make workers able to change jobs easier, businesses able to start and compete with others/countries easier, and would reduce ageism as well as going direct to consumer it would help the fixed pricing market of healthcare/medical services and supplies.
We don't get our auto/home/life insurance through work, why our most private healthcare/insurance? It is a legacy thing that needs to end and is harming wage increases, competition and worker/labor freedom.
Removing healthcare from employer responsibilities is actually pro-business and pro-worker and encourages the competition we need in that industry/service.
Side note: For some reason I really don't like Dropbox color schemes and fonts/typography. Feels like it was made in a machine with billions of AB tests but ultimately looks jarring. I miss the nice clean branding and the little illustrations.