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Why does Dropbox just keep jumping the shark? Every fricken turn breaks something for me. This breaks the entire way I have my systems set up. They were amazin
by donatj 7y ago
Why does Dropbox just keep jumping the shark? Every fricken turn breaks something for me. This breaks the entire way I have my systems set up.
They were amazing software and now they’ve eroded away most of it such that they have very little over their competitors.
At this point the only reason I stay is they sync macOS extended file tags and comments; both things I make heavy use of. To my knowledge Syncthing doesn’t, nor Google Drive for that matter.
- Razengan 7y ago> * At this point the only reason I stay is they sync macOS extended file tags and comments; both things I make heavy use of. To my knowledge Syncthing doesn’t, nor Google Drive for that matter.* iCloud Drive does that too, and should be good enough if you stay within the Apple ecosystem, can’t say about support/reliability on other platforms.
- donatj 7y ago> if you stay within the Apple ecosystem That’s the rub really. All my machines other than my main Laptop run Linux and my phone is Android. I’ve really set myself up for pain.
- dddw 7y agonono the companies who built the silos they want you to be in, they set you up for the pain deliberately
- nabla9 7y agoMost likely because they focus on different type of customers and trying to grow.