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Well that makes one of us who can live without Dropbox. Drew would have to kill a baby panda with an elephant tusk for me to even begin thinking about switchin

Well that makes one of us who can live without Dropbox. Drew would have to kill a baby panda with an elephant tusk for me to even begin thinking about switching.

crocowhile 15y ago
To say it all, in the past few years a number of alternative have emerged. I never bothered looking into it because I am so happy with Dropbox anyway but I bet I would find another to be happy with. This said: I stand with dropbox on this issue. Abusing their service to fake a p2p is definitely not the way to go and not that clever hack if you ask me.
amock 15y ago
Do you need Dropbox or just something like it? Dropbox doesn't seem to have very strong network effects so it seems like it would be easy to replace with a similar product. If you're willing to give up features that require hashes to be shared across accounts you could even have a secure replacement with client side encryption.
- runjake 15y ago
  Your comment would've been much more helpful had you provided said alternatives.
  - mtogo 15y ago
    Four seconds on duckduckgo: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_online_backup_services https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_onlin...
    - runjake 15y ago
      Thanks for the sarcastic response, but I'm already familiar with that page. What I'm more interested in is what HN users like and dislike and recommend, as opposed to a bunch of features charted into a table with nothing valuable in terms of reliability, usability and actual security. Lately, I've been leaning towards Jungle Disk for file syncing & some S3 solution for cloud backups.
      - amock 15y ago
        I've used SpiderOak and I was happy with it. I only used it to synchronize files across my laptops and desktops so I don't have any experience with mobile clients for it. I now use cron, rsync, and ZFS snapshots for versioning of all of my home directories. Both solutions worked well for me and which one, if either, is best depends on your situation.

Well that makes one of us who can live without Dropbox. Drew would have to kill a baby panda with an elephant tusk for me to even begin thinking about switching.

crocowhile 15y ago

To say it all, in the past few years a number of alternative have emerged. I never bothered looking into it because I am so happy with Dropbox anyway but I bet I would find another to be happy with. This said: I stand with dropbox on this issue. Abusing their service to fake a p2p is definitely not the way to go and not that clever hack if you ask me.

amock 15y ago

Do you need Dropbox or just something like it? Dropbox doesn't seem to have very strong network effects so it seems like it would be easy to replace with a similar product. If you're willing to give up features that require hashes to be shared across accounts you could even have a secure replacement with client side encryption.

runjake 15y ago
Your comment would've been much more helpful had you provided said alternatives.
- mtogo 15y ago
  Four seconds on duckduckgo: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_online_backup_services https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/List_of_onlin...
  - runjake 15y ago
    Thanks for the sarcastic response, but I'm already familiar with that page. What I'm more interested in is what HN users like and dislike and recommend, as opposed to a bunch of features charted into a table with nothing valuable in terms of reliability, usability and actual security. Lately, I've been leaning towards Jungle Disk for file syncing & some S3 solution for cloud backups.
    - amock 15y ago
      I've used SpiderOak and I was happy with it. I only used it to synchronize files across my laptops and desktops so I don't have any experience with mobile clients for it. I now use cron, rsync, and ZFS snapshots for versioning of all of my home directories. Both solutions worked well for me and which one, if either, is best depends on your situation.