Dropbox adds a device limit to free accounts • Hacker News Board

Re: Dropbox adds a device limit to free accounts

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Post by mciancia » Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 10:42 PM UTC

rmykhajliw wrote: post #41

It seems, time to use Amazon Drive: $12 for 100Gb annual. I was dropbox paying customers for years but stopped my subscription in 2016 in favor of Google Photos and iCloud. I realized there's nothing to store there other than a general photos/videos, all my docs takes less than a few gigabytes of data. Also I was changed for nothing, like restore file deleted a minute ago.

There are multiple alternatives to dropbox which are cheaper, but which are giving the same or better client and user experience?

Re: Dropbox adds a device limit to free accounts

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Post by EliceGrey » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 9:08 AM UTC

Fortunately, some 3rd party tools like CloudMounter can still connect Dropbox to an unlimited amount of devices.

Re: Dropbox adds a device limit to free accounts

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Post by rincebrain » Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 10:25 PM UTC

wtmt wrote: post #48

> If you're a Basic user and you linked more than three devices prior to March 2019, all of your previously linked devices will remain linked, but you can’t link additional devices. For how long will the previously linked devices remain linked...in other words, when will Dropbox force basic plan users to reduce the count to three? I foresee that happening in the future. And what does this mean for people who change d…

AIUI they're not claiming to ever remove already-linked devices, but you can't add more devices without going back under that threshold.