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Have you used Paper? Also an acquired team, and a great product that has seen a bevy of improvements since being under Dropbox.
by tln 8y ago
Have you used Paper? Also an acquired team, and a great product that has seen a bevy of improvements since being under Dropbox.
- gilbetron 8y agoIt needs a lot more work, the search is horrible, and there are a number of features needed to take it to the next level. So far their feature velocity has been tepid. I like a lot of the ideas, and appreciate a viable google docs alternative, but I fear a Dropbox-level of feature development will doom Paper long term.
- ed_balls 8y agoI'm forced to use Paper as a wiki now. Search, discoverability and extensibility is so bad that I miss Confluence....
- dc_gregory 8y agoOuch. Have you used something in that space that is better?
- nvr219 8y agoLiterally all I want from Dropbox is to sync files between my various devices. I am not interested in doing anything else with it.
- PurpleRamen 8y agoI think improving on the syncing-workflow and enhancing it to offer more then just syncing would be something useful. Something like automated actions, or filters. I store sourcecode in my dropbox, and I really would prefer a way to not sync certain junk-files from compiling-process. Or let it automatically commit to a git-repo if there are changes in certain folders. Something like IFTTT for files seems a sane solution that dropbox seem to miss for a long time now.
- Nullabillity 8y agoIncron[1] is pretty great for "do X when file Y changes"-style rules. [1]: http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en
- zawerf 8y agoI do something like this with their CLI to ignore node_modules folders for js dev on mac/linux: exclude_folders=$(find . -type d -name "node_modules") dropbox exclude add $exclude_folders dropbox exclude list # Sanity check
- TuringNYC 8y agoThats what I wanted it for. Then a single license magically turned into 5 enterprise licenses, became impossible to cancel, and drove me away from the company forever. I mean...$750/yr to sync files? Please dont mess up HelloSign like you did with the parent company!
- brightball 8y agoPaper is excellent.
- rmkrmk 8y agoPaper is a security nightmare. Every document is automatically accessible publicly if you know the url. You need to set each document individually to private. At least for the Personal/Pro plans.
- jasonsync 8y agoAnd easily accessible to Dropbox employees?
- rmkrmk 8y agoWell, I guess they do have access to all of your files anyway?
- ascar 8y agoIf they do it right some Dropbox employees might have access to it, but it should definitely not be easy. Think putting shards of encrypted data together and then decrepyting it by hand to get to the actual file. That's definitely (highly senior) dev level access and a lot of manual work.
- eridius 8y agoThe URLs contain a long random string in them, no? This makes them unguessable. Public-by-default seems to enable easy sharing of documents. I would hope that corporate plans would impose stricter privacy controls, but for personal use, being able to share a document just by sharing its URL seems very convenient. Though I suppose defaulting the permissions such that anyone with the URL can edit the document seems maybe too permissive.
- mevile 8y agoThis is security by obscurity, it's still technically possible to access the documents. Like if you accidentally revealed the URL somehow. You shouldn't have to worry about things like that.
- rrggrr 8y agoPaper is an embarrassment for a company with Dropbox's resources and past accomplishments. It’s a half-hearted effort that vaguely reminds me of Drop.io (which was terrific), with a small fraction of the utility. If you're going to make a centralized and open repository for specific content then benchmark against what works(ed).