Dropbox was an excellent service back in the day. Then they re-wrote their desktop apps (I think in python?) and it never synced cleanly after that.

I'm all-in on the apple ecosystem, so while it's not perfect, iCloud storage works better. Was a shame, though.

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matsemann 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It was python from the start ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8892 ), but maybe the 2to3 migration, or just a general rewrite you're thinking of?

	▲	hylaride 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There was a "major" change in the agent roughly a decade ago. Dropbox went from being a simple folder sync tool to a much more bloated agent that never synced cleanly. I don't know if they just moved away from some modules that were written in C or something, but I gave up on it soon after.

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jeffbee 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The biggest lesson I learned working at Dropbox was how toxic python is. If you have an unmanageable python code base, and hire Guido himself to help you fix it, he'll dig you into an even deeper hole and then quit. Which honestly was an extension of my experience at Google. When I left Google for Dropbox, python at Google was also in crisis. These two companies cemented my "python: not even once" stance.

	▲	varun_ch 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		TIL the creator of Python worked at Dropbox for 6 years.