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I didn’t even know they were still in business
It’s certainly coercive, if not an outright threat.
Shame if something we’re to happen to your files.
GET YOUR ASS BACK TO DROPBOX MOTHERFUCKER.
They already deleted mine and won’t answer any emails about it. You leave a project on the back-burner for a while, they introduce a new charging structure, and oopsie, everything is gone.
Fuck you Dropbox.
Next thing you’re gonna get a small section of one of your files in an email.
You want a toe? I can get you a toe.
One of your text documents in the form of letters clipped from a magazine or newspaper.
All is Dropbox.
Why do i think that it’s a some kind of poem…
Do you know where your files are motherfucker?
We have them. Go to Dropbox.
You wouldn’t download a FILE
What kind of car is that
It’s a DeLorean. Quick Marty we need to hit 88mbps!!
Upload a file you filthy bum
They’ve been acting desperate lately.
I wonder what the enshitification track looks like for a cloud data hosting company. I use it because it is convenient, has good coverage (iOS, windows and Linux (kinda)). Not secure, but I treat it like a big post card repository. What are folks using instead?
If you have your own server (or VPS) you can use Seafile. Works well enough to sync your data.
What’s a bit problematic is integrations. For example on Android there are apps that can automatically sync data over Dropbox. Using your own solution doesn’t really work there.
Yes. Digital Ocean was suggested by a colleague. When I looked it up it just took too much work for all the platforms I use. I’m happy to see all the suggestions I’m getting tho.
I personally rent a small VPS (At https://www.netcup.eu/, German hoster) with Ubuntu server and use Mailcow (as Docker container) with it.
Setting this up was relatively quick (2-3 hours maybe?), but you really need to know what you’re doing. Like getting started with the container is easy, but you also have to set up DNS for your server, reverse DNS and several things for your email server to look legit (DKIM, certificates, spf DNS entry, …).
After the setup it runs well, though there are still things you’ll have to be careful about. Like making sure that your certificate (usually LetsEncrypt, it’s free) gets switched out regularly in the container (with a post-certificate-renewal hook usually).
Overall, quite a headache if you don’t like to mess around with things.
And even worse if you fully rely on that mail server for important things. I still don’t use my own one for work, banking, taxes and so on, just too risky.
OneDrive. Not because I love Microsoft. I do not. I just dislike Google more and it’s …the least inconvenient. I switched from Proton mail to Exchange before Proton offered file storage because I wanted a groupware solution. I’ve considered switching back to Proton but just haven’t had time to seriously look into it yet.
Edit: I just remembered the other hangup. Fucking Excel. It’s a monster but it can do things that no other spreadsheet program can do. Every once in a great while I need to use a bunch of VBA code or some obscure function that doesn’t exist in Libre Office. Most people aren’t going to have this problem though.
When spreadsheeting software doesn’t have a feature you need, I feel the most logical next step is to write a program in a simple language like python to do it. (there is a reason data scientists like it so much)
It happened a while ago. They reduced the number of devices you can sync to, removed the ability to gain extra free storage from referrals and always push higher tier upgrades even if you are a paying customer. The last straw was when they redesigned the client to incorporate a ton of things no one asked for unrelated to syncing files.
Proton Drive
Owncloud (self-hosted).
Nextcloud and Syncthing
10-30, we got a hostage situation here.
I’d use dropbox again if they allowed public linking to said files. I have no use for online storage otherwise.
I hadn’t realized they removed that feature (well, paywalled it)…
I’ve had a free 8gb account for years, but almost never use it. Switched to self-hosting a while ago. VPN+SSH to manage files, then nginx to serve them through my domain.
You should probably check your Dropbox…
Duolingo level harassment
The “do you know where your files are?” reminds me of their past security leaks and breaches. 🤔
Yeah, I mean, what’s their point?
Do you know where your files are?
Yes, because I store them locally / No, because they are in the cloud
How’s that a selling point for cloud storage?
“Do you know where your files are?”
Unless you’ve decided to fuck with them, yeah: Right where I left them.
Are you saying I should be concerned about your ability to leave my shit alone?
I don’t understand this ‘marketing’ at all. TBH, I may finally empty my dropbox. Haven’t actually uploaded anything in a good 3 years anyway, just random archive storage.
For the last time, no!
2 minutes later, Google cancels Dropbox
