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Yeah agree, public folders were great. I’m still a user of dropbox since early days but: - I’m stupid and I kept a git repo in there, it became corrupt. Doesn’

by baby 5y ago

Yeah agree, public folders were great. I’m still a user of dropbox since early days but: - I’m stupid and I kept a git repo in there, it became corrupt. Doesn’t surprise me but wondering what else is fragile in dropbox. - Uploading pictures on mobile is really really slow. For some reason google photos on iOS is so much faster, like incomparably faster. - Google photos also allows you to quickly get to all your pictures. Dropbox is… at best cumbersome, at worst really slow at fetching lots of pictures. - make public folders a thing again for paying users. I’m sure this would create an awesome ecosystem of websites.

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago
I think that they removed public folders because some people started storing static files for their websites in it. As for why google photos are faster... I think it is because Photos resize images on device, while Dropbox uploads them in original size.
- skocznymroczny 5y ago
  In the past it was even possible to host static websites from the Public folder
SilverRed 5y ago
The speed of Google photos is actually breathtaking. The fact that you can instantly lag free scroll through tens of thousands of images and it all just loads instantly is quite impressive imo. The problem with some of the competitors is they do not treat photos as its own thing separate from files. I think google did a great job understanding that photos are not just a folder of files but that they require their own dedicated software.
- kccqzy 5y ago
  A lot of people had that realization early on. Google had Picasa and Apple had iPhoto, both of which were pretty good photo management software even before the mobile revolution.
  - mjcohen 5y ago
    We still use Picasa wherever possible.
- yojo 5y ago
  Dropbox had Carousel, a mobile first photos product that was decently well regarded. They killed it, presumably for cost/benefit reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_Carousel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_Carousel

by baby 5y ago

Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

I think that they removed public folders because some people started storing static files for their websites in it. As for why google photos are faster... I think it is because Photos resize images on device, while Dropbox uploads them in original size.

skocznymroczny 5y ago
In the past it was even possible to host static websites from the Public folder

SilverRed 5y ago

The speed of Google photos is actually breathtaking. The fact that you can instantly lag free scroll through tens of thousands of images and it all just loads instantly is quite impressive imo. The problem with some of the competitors is they do not treat photos as its own thing separate from files. I think google did a great job understanding that photos are not just a folder of files but that they require their own dedicated software.

kccqzy 5y ago
A lot of people had that realization early on. Google had Picasa and Apple had iPhoto, both of which were pretty good photo management software even before the mobile revolution.
- mjcohen 5y ago
  We still use Picasa wherever possible.
yojo 5y ago
Dropbox had Carousel, a mobile first photos product that was decently well regarded. They killed it, presumably for cost/benefit reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_Carousel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_Carousel