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Yeah, 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. Dropbo
by FreakyT 6y ago
Yeah, 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 ...