"Devices" are both PCs and smartphones, is that correct?
I'd assume so, given the URL itself is "https://www.dropbox.com/help/account/computer-limit"
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#22I don't understand the Dropbox negativity on HN. I've used it since 2010 and it has provided me with incredible value. I used to have free service for documents but my library of data grew larger. I signed up for their $10/month program without a hitch and have been a paying user for years. You get a terabyte of space. I got rid of NAS backups and I have selective sync enabled on folders that I need synced. Large fil…
The problem is when Dropbox takes previously available features or capabilities and reduces them to drive subscriptions INSTEAD of adding new value.
It is disappointing to see how users these days have gotten used to the "Free" model and feel entitled for a free service on the internet.
I recall when GMail launched with 1 GB free data. That was HUGE and everyone switched from Hotmail and Yahoo mail to GMail. Little did an average user know and still doesn't know that Google is an advertisement company. You are the product.
Users have no right to complain about lack of features in a free service which doesn't serve ads, doesn't sell your data or have any other business model other than upsell you their product. I'll be the first one to quit using Dropbox if they get into advertisement business.
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#23What is dropbox basic? I see no explanation anywhere. It's been ages since I visited dropbox but my god how things have changed. Every flow and part of their website is about converting people to paid.
The nerve! It's almost like they want to make money!
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#24That's a little inconvenient, but I'm running on three devices at the moment.
Now can we get a .dropboxignore file for developers please? I don't need the temporary files in my projects being synced.
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#25Doomed
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#26I'm a little sad that there's no low price offering comparable to Google drives 2$/100GB. I just don't need a TB of personal space but I like the dropbox client a lot better. Especially because of linux support and for some reason syncing seems to be significantly faster.
Dropbox uses full differential syncing, the only mainstream client that does that universally. Onedrive only differential syncs with office files. Google drive, well, uses full file syncing for every file.
Could you please elaborate on what differential syncing means? Does Dropbox break down each file into small chunks before uploading? What are the advantages?
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#27They freed up the half-dozen devices on my account when they stopped supporting anything other than vanilla ext4 on Linux.
Wait, what? Why should the Dropbox client care which filesystem you are using?
I think it's something to do with extended attributes - though why they need them now, after all these years, I don't know.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dropbox uses full differential syncing, the only mainstream client that does that universally. Onedrive only differential syncs with office files. Google drive, well, uses full file syncing for every file.
Could you please elaborate on what differential syncing means? Does Dropbox break down each file into small chunks before uploading? What are the advantages?
https://www.dropbox.com/help/syncing-uploads/upload-entire-f...
This should save some bandwidth at the expense of CPU time.
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#29I don't understand the Dropbox negativity on HN. I've used it since 2010 and it has provided me with incredible value. I used to have free service for documents but my library of data grew larger. I signed up for their $10/month program without a hitch and have been a paying user for years. You get a terabyte of space. I got rid of NAS backups and I have selective sync enabled on folders that I need synced. Large fil…
There has been several things:
• Dropbox has failed to improve their offering and even for a paying customer you do not get anything more for your money today than you were getting several years ago. That is not objectively a bad thing, I mean a spoon has hardly evolved in hundred of years and is still worth every penny. But this is HN and that's a bit of a sin around here.
• In search of profitability Dropbox has used several dark marketting patterns. Its website also pushes way too much business/team option that are per user/per month. A lof of people on HN are private user and they basically have access to a single option.
• The new features that Dropbox did introduce work only for corporate/team user. There is now a Professional user but it costs a standard business plan for 2 users with less feature.
• There was some complain about the Mac OS client uses of apis.
Despite the negativity, HN users seems major paying users. So I think rather than negativity it is more disappointment. The feeling that Dropbox could have been so much more and they would have paid for it gladly, but it is instead becoming a network feature for large companies and startup.