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Hello, Thanks for all the feedback. I am one of the founders of Dissident and happy to answer any questions. We became frustrated that many storage don't allow
by bronks 8y ago
Hello,
Thanks for all the feedback.
I am one of the founders of Dissident and happy to answer any questions.
We became frustrated that many storage don't allow us to fully enjoy our content (I can't listen to my FLAC music on my Google Drive, even if I have 1To of storage there, I can't read my epubs on dropbox,...) so we decided to create our own desktop and use the most popular web viewers. We added the ability to do cross search and also move files from one service to another. For some services that allow it like Put.io we even convert torrents into files.
The idea is to have the same interface and features, no matter if you are on Box, Hubic or your Owncloud server. You can pin important folders and we let you know when they have been updated. We allow cross service search and cloud to cloud between storage, one of our most popular feature. We also added the ability to browse Slack, Facebook, Instagram, Smugmug or Pocket as a “file system”.
We decided to create Dashboard to browse social media (without the noise) and every Friday we work on Library to offer a free access to public domain content.
We want to create a nice environment to access our content. We don’t want to do advertising so we decided to provide the product for a subscription.
Few remarks:
We have changed our website copy to be less “marketing”
We are bringing back our email login (we agree with everything that was said here, it will be available shortly)
Regarding oAuth permission, we have always focus on effortless sign up (you login and boom you have everything setup) and, of course, we don’t store/sell any user data. But we understand what was said here.
We are looking to ask for less permission for login even if means ask more permission later for specific services (youtube, google drive)
We are still a work in progress and would love to have more feedback on the product.
Here is an invite code: DISSIDENT_HNEWS