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'Dropbox for Business' multiple accounts have a dismal implementation. What they did is let one personal account pseudo-merge into a business account, so now b
by rogerbinns 11y ago
'Dropbox for Business' multiple accounts have a dismal implementation. What they did is let one personal account pseudo-merge into a business account, so now both are sort of in the same place, no matter how unrelated. Oh and tough luck if you have multiple accounts, multiple businesses, try to disentangle the accounts, use mobile devices and a whole host of other issues.
What they should have done is just taken the google approach. You can login one or more times concurrently, and can choose your current user view by switching users in a dropdown somewhere. There was some drivel about how non-paying customers could then combine multiple non-paying accounts, but making your service hostile for the paying customers is stupid, and the simple solution is to allow at most one unpaid account.
Dropbox is very lucky that their competition sucks, and that they support Linux. (While you may not need Linux support, others you work/play with may, amplifying the Linux support needs ignored by pretty much every other vendor.)
I wish services would just adopt the google multi-account approach. I'm looking at you Trello.
- iamleppert 11y agoTotally agree. Why couldn't they have done something like Github? And what's up with it taking 25 engineers working full time...really?? To implement multiple accounts/group functionality?