Dropbox

“People generally just prefer an icon on desktop to click/tap. And that's the reason Dropbox found its audience.”

“they still have the best file sync platform of the big providers, easily beating onedrive and Google drive for reliability”

“Dropbox let attackers link unverified Lenovo accounts to unrelated users' Dropbox accounts, without having the user confirm first”

“a concern is that Dropbox itself isn't set in amber, at some point it might get rug pulled”

“from a user point of view it is really attractive to have storage services that are JUST storage”

“And a worse app/service and that's saying something because Dropbox isn't even a shell of what it used to be.”

“Make a product that solves a sufficiently common problem, and make it extremely high quality.”

“I still use Dropbox personally and really like their use experience, but I just don't find enough use for it to pay for a service like that.”

“Dropbox did this to me with my actual data. I misunderstood it as a service where I could upload some data, uninstall the client, and expect the data to be there”

“For a couple hours if you typed in any email on the login page, password checking was skipped and you could login to any account.”

“Needing to constantly stay abreast of feature churn to make sure I understand how and where my files are stored is not for me”

“As a customer of DropBox since ~2011 I would say they've been an outstanding success.”

“I've been a paying customer since their early days. Their value, at least in my view, lies precisely in that they are just a file storage SaaS.”

“Most of the other cruft is gone. It's great. It was so refreshing when it got installed. I would have left Dropbox by now without it.”

“I always thought it was a shame that Dropbox never had a tier between its free tier which is not usable and its first paid tier.”

“I dislike the obfuscation so many photo storage solutions use. I want my files and my folders.”

“A business that can bring in a steady $2.5B a year doesn't seem like a bad business to me”

“A huge unforced error though is that the starting price for individual plans is $20/year versus $10/month for Dropbox and Box”

“Dropbox helped here. They had a Linux client and a Mac client and kept both in sync.”

“it's really amazing at... Syncing files. I use it pretty creatively with large numbers of files and large volumes and it just works reliably.”

“as a cross platform, standalone file syncing experience I've been a happy paying subscriber for nearly 19 years and counting”

“With their block level syncing, Dropbox is still not really replicated in the market.”

“My musician friends still use dropbox and google drive to push around files to each other”

“Things work just fine elsewhere (Dropbox, Google Drive, Nextcloud, and Seafile are all solutions I've had good experiences with).”

“explaining why Dropbox isn't enough as a backup service and you need Backblaze as an additional layer of protection”

“The biggest benefit of the ios dropbox app is to search through the contents of all files.”

“It works. My family will have all our photos and valuable sentimental data preserved.”

“dropbox is thoroughly tested for all kinds of wierd interactions and behaviours across OS”

“rather than only for syncing your own files across devices and having an extra versioned copy in the cloud”

“The value is in the client (DropBox in my case) seamlessly working across all my devices.”

“dropbox uses a _local_ folder with efficient sync in the background, which is an important difference”

“It's now a fundamentally different product than the original, and has re-created exactly the problem the original solved.”

“Adding more features just to chase new user growth often comes at the expense of confusing the existing user base”

“services like dropbox are outreach/charity organisations that onboard the masses onto 10x productivity curves”

“dropbox is apprently easier to use than a selfhost ftp site and well maintained by a company”

“Dropbox is rendering that pdf as html, so using that link should be safer than downloading the pdf.”

“Third-party vendors like DropBox, Box and many others have made products that look like OneDrive but actually work”

“Dropbox is great and I use it but only because I can’t get the same functionality out of rsync”

“if you have a third party storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox, they also show up as location in Files”

“Kinda wild that someone scraping google's data would prevent me from getting into my PAID (>90$/yr) Dropbox account.”