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too bad the old versions of dropbox no longer work.
by maltalex 6y ago
too bad the old versions of dropbox no longer work.
- kioleanu 6y agoMight make sense to invest into a something like Mountainduck - 35 EUR (or similar software), and get an agnostic sync client. The great advantage is you can change the backend (switch to another service) without having to learn how to use anew client
- maltalex 6y agoThanks for the suggestion, but Mountainduck doesn't seem to have a Linux version. Is there something similar for Linux?
- InvaderFizz 6y agoIf you are comfortable with CLI, rclone is the Swiss Army knife of cloud storage.
- maltalex 6y agorclone is great, but it doesn't have the same level of sync capabilities as Dropbox or Mountainduck (supposedly).
- hartator 6y agoInteresting! Any luck with Backblaze B2 as a backend for Mountain Duck?
- FreakyT 6y agoYeah, Dropbox has been on a steady downhill slope UX-wise. There is literally one reason to click the Dropbox icon, and that’s to pause/unpause syncing. Dropbox doesn’t need an elaborate UI, and I suspect the only reason it has one is for marketing reasons, not UX ones.
- tomc1985 6y agoOne of their PMs got a little nippy at me when I made a very similar complaint. Said they had to to survive... and I'm thinking, dude you guys should have never gone public, you could have kept a small, focused product Dropbox is still the only sync agent that can handle a large git repo without freaking out
- nolok 6y agoSecond reason is to see the last-synced list, to see if things got sent / are received / if something is stuck. So they put it behind a second submenu instead of front and center ...
- sn_master 6y agohuh, I've been using Dropbox since 2011 and almost never ever launch the UI. What parts of the Dropbox UI do you use? Even for uploads, you can know if its completed from the Windows Explorer.