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I work at Dropbox and came up with this page. Thanks for throwing confounding variables in this soft launch experiment, Hacker News. A few points that might interest yall: 1. We won't publish to facebook or twitter without your explicit permission. 2. We ask for information about your facebook profile because it will make Dropbox better. It's mainly about learning about our users without annoying surveys. We won't ma…

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Regarding your "voting" system so users can "decide what we work on next", why is it that there are things with tens of thousands of votes from a year ago not "being worked on" (or declined), yet "use application indicator in Ubuntu" with three hundred votes is being worked on?

What's the point of a voting system if you don't address the most voted items first?

Free storage for following dropbox on twitter has 16 votes.

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/2235/free-storage-space-for-...

Re: Dropbox (YC S07): Simple Tasks for Extra Space (768MB total)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure if ARM based netbooks ever became actually popular Dropbox would take the time to compile an ARM version of the client.

Its a chicken and egg problem, really. Besides, I would appreciate the ability to wrangle my own dropbox client. From their api, it seems that each app which hooks into their API must have a secret key, so I wonder if an open-source client can be distributed minus the key.

Chicken and egg? You think the only thing holding back the popularity of ARM based netbooks is that there's no Dropbox client for ARM yet? ;)
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