Dropbox is example of a bad company.

Why Dropbox doesn’t offer features adjacent to sync, like: end to end encryption for consumers, backup solutions like backblaze, S3-like buckets, controls like with S3 (like those related to IAM), tools to monitor folders and see analytics, flexible storage plans, equivalent of the Firefox/Bitwarden send, equivalent of services like ProtonDrive, and stop locking down ordinary features behind additional payment wall (even in paid plans, like using your available storage with more than one user for security and for defining scope for each device). My Dropbox Plus $120/year offers a fraction of what my managed nextcloud provides.

If you pay Dropbox 10$/month, you can’t set a damn password or expiry date to the file that you share. You have to pay even more for this simple feature.

Their password manager is limited to 50 passwords in their free plan. What these people are thinking?

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margalabargala 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Not only that, but also for a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.

They won't last.

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s09dfhks 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I got that reference. Don’t worry king

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blibble 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

the company lost $500 million last year, it's possible that comment might still be correct

	▲	AlexeyBelov 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		90% of people misunderstand that comment entirely. It was about the value proposition of Dropbox as of early 2007 (and also about the specific announcement!) and their long-term profitability, if anything.

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xdfgh1112 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Their password manager is dead now... As is Send and Track, which allowed analytics like you describe.