Free Dropbox Accounts Now Only Sync to Three Devices

https://zapier.com/blog/free-dropbox-account-three-device-limit/

by doppp • 7 years ago

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eugeniub• 7 years ago

This started 2 months ago. I deleted Dropbox.

rangibaby• 7 years ago

I have a paid account and for awhile it kept nagging me to upgrade to a new and more expensive account tier and even added a nag to the right click context menu. I guess someone important complained, because things are mostly back to normal now

woutr_be2• 7 years ago

I had Dropbox installed on all my devices, but wasn't really actively using it, that was until it kept asking me to upgrade to a paid account, that's when I moved all my files to iCloud and deleted my Dropbox account.

Since I only use Apple products, I don't really have to worry about cross OS compatibility.

damnyou• 7 years ago

You may still want to worry about platform lock-in, if only for the option value of being able to leave when Apple inevitably makes a decision you disagree with.

sidcool5• 7 years ago

So you deleted the free service you were using when the service provided decided to charge for it?

scarface746• 7 years ago

Oh well. Instead of paying $10/month for a terabyte with Dropbox, I can pay $10 for:

- Office 365 with Word, PowerPoint, Excel for 6 users each with a terabyte of storage.

- iCloud with 2 terabyte that I can use to back up all of my devices.

Or I can get Amazon Cloud Storage up to 1TB for $60 a year.

EDIT: Corrected iCloud and OneDrive storage.

nafizh• 7 years ago

That sounds good value for money. But the Dropbox syncing experience is unparalleled for me. For that alone, 10$ is worth it.

PascLeRasc• 7 years ago

Not to mention a native Linux client, that's huge for me.

Benjamin_Dobell• 7 years ago

A few years ago I would have agreed. However, when Dropbox started telling me which file systems I could use (not even consistent across OS), then Dropbox just became another dumb syncing service.

The main killer of course being that they dropped support for exFAT, so there's zero way to use Dropbox on a drive shared between OS. That sounds a bit niche, but it basically means Dropbox can't be used on external storage.

Don't get me wrong, exFAT is dated. However, the supported file systems vary between OS, so you can't even use Tuxera (or FUSE) NTFS on Mac.

There's a lot of complaints about this on the Dropbox forums; so they know, they just don't care. So that's a black mark both technically and for customer support.

jorvi• 7 years ago

The syncing is unparalleled because Dropbox does block-level/delta syncing (per 4KB I think?) instead of file-level syncing. This becomes very readily apparent if you store large variable files on Dropbox vs. another cloud storage service. Change a few KB? Dropbox syncs it in a few seconds, whereas most (nearly all) other services will happily re-upload your entire multi-gigabyte file again and again and again on each edit.

goerz8• 7 years ago

Not being able to sync arbitrary folders is a huge caveat, though. To some extent, I can use symlinks to alleviate that, but it always feels very brittle

educationdata• 7 years ago

Also important to notice: OneDrive does not count shared folder from other users against you. See: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-and-sync-shared...

So with shared folders, you can have 5T space in OneDrive.

Also Office 365 Home is $80/year on Amazon.

chipperyman573• 7 years ago

Dropbox double dips and counts shared folders against you? That seems weird because they're already counting it against the person who uploaded it to begin with. So for a 1GB file they have removed a total of 2GB of quota between the sharer and the receiver.

jacurtis• 7 years ago

I got 15 months of Office 365 with 1Tb OneDrive storage for ~$55 at Costco.

Just thought I'd mention because I normally wouldn't have thought to go to Costco for Software, but it's a great deal and they just give you a code that you redeem from Microsoft's website. It has worked great so far! Cheapest place I know for buying Office.

bobbylarrybobby• 7 years ago

Actually iCloud’s $10 a month plan gets you 2TB these days

dreamcompiler• 7 years ago

But it's Mac only, AFAIK. Windows and Linux users are SOL with iCloud.

anbop3• 7 years ago

Try those companies' sync apps and you'll be back to Dropbox in a hot minute. I once tried to use the OneDrive app and it said my files would take 9 hours to back up, after an hour I gave up and tried Dropbox and it did it in an hour.

julianz• 7 years ago

Nope. Dropbox never. ever. shuts up about me being out of space, emails me constantlyand displays Windows alerts whenever I log on. I have over a GB of space left on my account. Dropbox support says that's just how their system works so I'm off to Onedrive.

michaelmrose5• 7 years ago

I suspect this is what is hoped but how are users actually using the service? As a mediocre backup service? File sharing with friends/family? Just to ship data conveniently between a bunch of devices that often share the same lan?

The last use case can be served as well by syncthing which can sync unlimited TB of data between devices for $0 per month.

philliphaydon• 7 years ago

I have about 800gb of photos and raw photos, 3 desktops and 2 laptops, all backing up to OneDrive. Never ever had sync issues. The sync in Singapore to OneDrive is faster than DropBox. (Never had issues with DropBox tho)

Dylan168077• 7 years ago

On the one hand OneDrive's client was awful years ago, haven't tried the current codebase.

On the other hand Dropbox has caused me major problems as recently as a couple weeks ago, and manages to keep bogging down explorer itself, which is a much worse sin than slow initial sync.

paulcarroty3• 7 years ago

https://rclone.org/, works everywhere. You don't need to rely on 'company X app Y'.

tallanvor• 7 years ago

OneDrive works fine, and at least with Windows 10 you have the option to not download a file to the local machine until you actually need it. The business version used to be a huge mess, but even it works properly these days.

asdff2• 7 years ago

Your first sync will be slow but after that onedrive is no different for me than dropbox on Mac OS. In fact I put all my files in the onedrive folder now. Integrates with office at work so I can save stuff to my personal laptop and phone pretty easily.

dawnerd• 7 years ago

Google's Gsuite has unlimited storage for 12 bucks a month. Technically there's a five user minimum but... they don't actually enforce it.

I know it's a little more involved getting set up but their syncing works pretty good too (and file sync is also awesome).

scarface746• 7 years ago

I didn’t see anything else of value in GSuite besides the storage for personal use and email with your own domain.

judge20202• 7 years ago

The only downside with Drive File Stream on Windows is wsl doesn't have native support for it, you have to use a network map or third-party software to map it to something wsl can interface with.

brandmeyer2• 7 years ago

The downside to G Suite is that to share files with other people, they must also have G Suite accounts.

I'm working for a company that frequently needs to share large files with third-parties, where "large" is "larger than modern email limits". The requirement to have a G Suite login is a complete non-starter for most of the companies we interact with, but Dropbox is fine. So, we use Dropbox to share files with those suppliers.

hrktb2• 7 years ago

I am heavily using Google Photos (paid account), but it’s frustrating how slow uploads are, how bad it deals with batches of files (can take hours to upload a few thousand photos) and how little visibility there is over what is actually syncing and what is stuck.

I use primarily OSX/iOS, is the Drive experience any better ? I was seriously thinking about moving from Dropbox to Drive, but these issues are giving me pause.

fnordsensei• 7 years ago

I switched to Resilio way back when, before they redirected all their efforts to their enterprise solution. It has rough edges, but works well enough. I'm not sure whether I would pick it today if having to remake the choice.

ehsankia• 7 years ago

Dropbox doesn't even have options for less. Most other ones let you have 100GB or so for 1-2$. I have ~50GB of data, and I don't want to be paying 10$ when I'm not using 90% of it.

edwinyzh• 7 years ago

Yes, that's the issue of their pricing, I don't need that much space.

BuckRogers• 7 years ago

That's the conclusion I came to as well. I use Dropbox but I found the notice about increasing restrictions a couple months ago, and looked at iCloud and OneDrive.

Other than what you mentioned, OneDrive always offering Office Online and the apps with a lot of shared storage for other users. And iCloud gives you that device backup for multiple people, another thing it grants you is the ability to use iCloud email. The web interface is the cleanest and most dignified looking of all major vendors. The snag with iCloud email is their calendar isn't the best, you can't have it email you reminders for appointments as you can with Outlook.com and Gmail. iOS notifications only, which is a very annoying restriction. I like to be notified, but also have an email sitting in my inbox on more detailed instructions on what may need to be done.

Starting from scratch today with the goal being zero-cost, I'd pick Outlook.com and OneDrive. If I'm willing to perpetually pay, iCloud.

May have to get on that and at least get over to Outlook/OneDrive, but tough to leave Gmail when everything is all setup as you like it. Dropbox is easier to leave, they're pushing it by decreasing value rather than improving it.

nitemice3• 7 years ago

It's worth noting that only devices (PCs, mobiles) using the official Dropbox app count as devices.

I've never used the official app to connect to Dropbox, so now I guess I never will.

nextlevelwizard6• 7 years ago

How do you sync files? Do you just manually upload them throw browser and download them from another?

copperx3• 7 years ago

It seems like the OP doesn't use Dropbox's killer feature, which is seamless and faster syncing than anything else out there.

I don't see the point then of using Dropbox exclusively in such fashion. All cloud storage services used like that are interchangeable.

nitemice3• 7 years ago

I mainly use Dropbox as a way of syncing a bunch of textfiles between my PC and phone, so I use GoodSync[1] on my PC and FolderSync[2] on my phone. That said, I've recently started using Resilio for some other stuff, so I could probably do away with Dropbox for this use case, and just use that instead.

The other time I use Dropbox is for apps that use it as an intergrated way of syncing or backing up settings, such as MoneyDance[3].

[1] https://www.goodsync.com/

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.andro...

[3] https://infinitekind.tenderapp.com/kb/syncing-and-sharing-da...

huxflux• 7 years ago

So glad I left Dropbox after they got hacked.

cfallin2• 7 years ago

For anyone looking for an open-source self-hosted alternative: I've been really happy with Syncthing [0]. It's as invisible as Dropbox once set up.

It supports arbitrary topologies (two peer machines syncing, one central always-on machine and lots of clients, etc.); with a VM in the cloud it can closely emulate Dropbox (sans web-based file browser), but it will also support e.g. just a desktop at home and a laptop that syncs when it's on the LAN. Pretty useful!

[0] https://syncthing.net/

tryptophan• 7 years ago

In my experience, syncthing works as advertised, however the UI is a bit of a mess(as many open source projects have).

Especially the android app. The status of what the program is doing at the moment is not communicated very well. The refresh rate for status updates seems to be very low, and so you have connection status being disconnected, then jumps to connected after a few seconds of frustration("why isn't it connecting!!"). Then it sits there at 0% ("whats wrong!), and jumps to 64% after a few seconds, then 99%. Then sits there("is something wrong?"). Eventually it finishes and everything is fine("yay it worked!").

Love the project. Hope they get UI experience down though, as it is the main thing holding it back in my opinion.

shaan73• 7 years ago

Try Nextcloud, the UI is quite good (both the website and the app).

michaelmrose5• 7 years ago

When used as these directories will eventually be in sync it works great. When the user expects something to sync this second with visual confirmation it does not. In fact syncing too frequently automatically would be nice for the ui but bad for battery life on mobile.

Maybe it just needs a connect and sync now button for users to hammer.

pingec• 7 years ago

I agree, I think it is a fantastic product and I use it a lot, however the Android app is really confusing and doesn't really work that well.

peterburkimsher• 7 years ago

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

el_benhameen2• 7 years ago

I don't think this really applies here. The commenter isn't saying "why would anyone use Dropbox when they could just roll their own with these open source tools", they're saying "this product is a good option for those who are specifically looking for an open source alternative".

jplayer01• 7 years ago

I thought it was frowned upon to use version control on binary files? Or is it just git that doesn't support them?

scarface746• 7 years ago

No iOS version. All of the other alternatives integrate with the Files app and can be used in the file picker.

guruz• 7 years ago

You can also try ownCloud [0] which can be installed on a LAMP server and has possibility to access from all platforms with both syncing and mounting. You can also hook in existing storage as backend.

[0] https://owncloud.org/

moviuro• 7 years ago

I use both owncloud & syncthing, but they serve different needs. I use OwnCloud to share stuff with friends an family, but I use syncthing for syncing stuff across my "fleet". The main advantage of syncthing is that it runs standalone even on servers where I have no privileges.

See https://try.popho.be/securing-home.html & https://try.popho.be/byeunison.html

radarsat12• 7 years ago

Can you recommend a reasonably priced cloud VM for mainly file storage?

artificialLimbs• 7 years ago

I recently started using a Digital Ocean droplet for my Nextcloud server. It seems very nice so far and I love the PhoneTrack addon. It helped me map out where we're going to put some of our buildings on our property.

I am going to look into mouting my home server's 2TB ZFS array via NFS on my droplet this week, and then reinstall Nextcloud and use that mount point for the user data.

m0nty• 7 years ago

Depends what you mean by 'reasonable' but I've always been happy to pay Hetzner c. €22 per month. You do get a lot of storage with some of their servers.

https://www.hetzner.com/sb

cfallin2• 7 years ago

I use GCE (Google) for this purely because they had the lowest per-byte cost for block storage, at least when I looked. The instance itself has the smallest CPU/memory config. IIRC my bill is about $7/mo for the instance with separate 200GB volume.

zimpenfish2• 7 years ago

Alas, fsync() appears to be (still) broken which means there's no viable iOS client. But that's my only complaint with Syncthing - it's extremely helpful for sharing metadata between machines.

Dylan168077• 7 years ago

Oh. There is an iOS syncthing client named "fsync" for some reason.

herpderperator• 7 years ago

I have been using a self-hosted Seafile[0] instance since 2014 hosted on my Linux server. It's written in Python[1]. I have never had an issue with it. I sync to my desktops, laptops, phones, etc. It works on all major platforms. It has an online browser just like Dropbox too, supports link sharing, WebDAV, etc. Its server-side storage is based on git[2].

I was really impressed with all the upgrades throughout the years. The upgrade scripts that come with their installations which I run on my Linux box are clearly labelled (e.g. 5.1_to_5.2.sh) and run successfully without giving me random obscure messages that you might sometimes expect.

I recommend people check it out to see if it could work for you.

The only downside really is that since it's git-based storage, you can't just specify "this is the directory I want to serve", rather you have to upload everything via Seafile and it will write it out in its git filesystem (which means it's duplicated if you already have a copy on your filesystem.) This is in contrast to OwnCloud[3] I think, which will let you access/serve remote files from their original location.

[0] https://www.seafile.com/en/download/

[1] https://github.com/haiwen/seafile

[2] https://manual.seafile.com/develop/data_model.html

[3] https://owncloud.org/

eemil2• 7 years ago

Agreed. BTW, parts of the server are actually written in C.

Best thing about Seafile is its syncing performance. Worlds better than owncloud/pydio, and it doesn't choke on large directories.

paxys2• 7 years ago

What's the point of having a freemium model if people can't actually use your service as intended to see what benefits a full version will provide? If I'm trying to open a file on my phone and the app won't let me log in, my reaction isn't going to be "guess I should pay to upgrade" but rather to hit uninstall.

awill2• 7 years ago

they did what many other companies do. Use the freemium model to gain users and publicity, then try to reduce costs and convert free users to premium by destroying the free tier.

gboudrias• 7 years ago

This seems... Unsustainable?

scarface746• 7 years ago

They actually have to make money now instead of depending on VC funding.

Johnny555• 7 years ago

The flip side is, what's the point of a freemium model if the free product gives most users what they want, so they have no incentive to ever pay to upgrade?

I've been a dropbox user for years and haven't paid them a penny since the free product does everything I need it to.

pjmlp4• 7 years ago

As expected, the large majority of comments, on a site dedicated to starting up a business, are how to use free alternatives or stop using it altogether.

function_seven• 7 years ago

You imply some sort of contradiction.

1. Businesses also want to minimize expenses. 2. Hacker News, despite its host, is not dedicated to starting up businesses. It has a broader range than that.

threezero• 7 years ago

A lot of things related to hacking (like phreaking) are about getting things for free, so it seems like it’s in the spirit of the name of the site, at least.

WilliamEdward• 7 years ago

Dropbox is no longer a startup. I think they'll be just fine without the support of a niche internet circle.

pjmlp4• 7 years ago

Sure they will be just fine, my point was about how so many are eager to get paid, yet vocal to pay for the work of others.

bartread• 7 years ago

I too was struck by this, although not entirely surprised. Still, as a counterpoint, I've been a Dropbox user for nearly 10 years now, and have been paying for 8 - 9 years. I'm completely happy with the service and, although alternatives are available, I haven't found any compelling reason to change.

kristianp• 7 years ago

Previous discussion 65 days ago, 52 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19362778

valleyjo2• 7 years ago

Well... I guess they have to try to make money somehow

sidcool5• 7 years ago

Don't we all?

valleyjo2• 7 years ago

So meta

gopher2• 7 years ago

I would be curious to learn/hear some of the backstory on how they picked 3, since where to draw the line with freemium seems like it's hard to get right.

boulos2• 7 years ago

If I had to guess: Computer, Tablet, Phone.

ohyeshedid• 7 years ago

My guess would be: Desktop, Laptop, Phone.

asdff2• 7 years ago

Force nuclear family unit into pricier plan. I know a lot of people that use dropbox for family photos, and after events and gatherings pass links to people to view or add their own photos from these events.

indigodaddy• 7 years ago

What about BitTorrent Sync? Is that still a thing, and didn't do Dropboxy type things?

rtomanek• 7 years ago

I use it to sync my multiple android devices, home laptop and two servers.

Quite happy with it.

alpaca128• 7 years ago

I don't remember details but the last time I tried it the program didn't work reliably enough for me. Nowadays there's Syncthing which does the same thing but better.

microtonal2• 7 years ago

It is not the same thing. SyncThing's model of having to add every host to every other host (possibly with introducer nodes) is much more complex. With Bittorrent/Resilio Sync, you can just give someone else a read-only or read-write key for a folder, and they become part of the swarm. Also, Resilio Sync supports encrypted-only nodes, which participate in the swarm by providing bandwidth, but only see ciphertext. This makes it possible to use e.g. an untrusted VPS as an always-available node.

Unfortunately, Resilio had to ruin it with complex enterprice-y license schemes.

microtonal2• 7 years ago

It is now called Resilio Sync and it still works fine. Unfortunately, they have focused more on enterprise customers and now have more enterprise pricing.

goerz8• 7 years ago

I’ve been evaluating Resilio Sync as an alternative to Dropbox these past few weeks. The main problem I’ve come across is the extreme amount of RAM this program needs. Their website says they require 2kB RAM for every indexed file, which is insane. I’d wanted to run this on a Raspberry Pi, but it doesn’t fit in the Raspberry’s 1GB of memory

Cyclone_• 7 years ago

Wonder how much of this is related to them being public now. It's still useful for me with only 3 devices so I wouldn't be ready to start paying them though.

MAGZine2• 7 years ago

I just ran into this because I use Dropbox sync with 1Password.

My 1Password standalone license is now limited to three connected devices as a result. Very disappointing.

Can't say I'll be giving dropbox my business.

TheChaplain• 7 years ago

Uh, you didn't give them your business earlier either, because you were using the free tier?

MAGZine2• 7 years ago

Why would I give them my business now, after being kicked off? If I'm going to pay for a service, I'd sooner pay for Google Drive.

nicky02• 7 years ago

"As a result of this decision, I will continue to not pay for this thing that I have never paid for"

goerz8• 7 years ago

As a result of this decision, I will no longer consider doing business with Dropbox in the future, and I will steer colleagues and students away from using Dropbox

nextlevelwizard6• 7 years ago

How many people have more than 3 devices to sync between anyways?

I bet normal use case is to sync between desktop, laptop, and phone.

And I'm sure now some people will comment how they use Dropbox to sync stuff to their whole extended family for some obscure reason and that is fine. Then the free version is just not for you.

For me it seems to still work like it used to.

michaelmrose5• 7 years ago

You being technically apt would probably set up distinct accounts for say yourself and a spouse and share between if relevant but family accounts are incredibly common for average people.

The average immediate not extended family size is 4.

Also please note that setting a distinct device limit of 3 is only an effective and useful change if and only if it effects a significant number of users and pushes a significant number to paid accounts.

nextlevelwizard6• 7 years ago

If you are miss using service then you accept the consequences, which in this case is paying for it.

sidcool5• 7 years ago

Yours is a fair argument, but you are being downvoted for a contrarian view. I too have two devices I ideally have to sync between.

Also, why do we expect corporations to dole out free goodies for everyone? Dropbox has a good product, they should be able to charge for it.

goerz8• 7 years ago

I expect them to honor the agreement I had with them when originally signing up with them, and promoting them to others (earning 20GB of storage through referrals). If they want to reserve new features for paid accounts, fine, but don’t cripple existing free accounts to make them effectively useless.

josteink4• 7 years ago

How many people have more than 3 devices to sync between anyways?

Work machine, home laptop, home desktop, phone.

Oops. One will have to go.

nextlevelwizard6• 7 years ago

Why would you need to sync stuff between your work machine and private machine? That's just dumb and irresponsible.

goerz8• 7 years ago

Laptop, remote workstation, 2 phones, 3 iPads

mtzet• 7 years ago

This really happened a couple of months ago, and really sucks. There aren't that many alternatives to Dropbox if you require both Windows, Mac and Linux client support. I ended up settling on Nextcloud (ownCloud fork) hosted by Hetzner[1].

So far it's pretty good. Photo sync works from Phone works perfectly, and the desktop apps are decent enough. I did get bitten by a recursive folder-sync bug [2], which is certainly not of Dropbox quality but at least pull-requests are welcome.

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/nextcloud

[2] https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/1000

josteink4• 7 years ago

Linux support is already effectively dropped if you use anything beside ext4, so it’s no longer the reliable cross-platform champion it used to be.

They’ve certainly lost my goodwill. What a shame.

Uninen• 7 years ago

I switched to Nextcloud about a year ago and I've been very happy.

Firstly, I now have as much disk I need, and secondly, the warm fuzzy feeling you get when you know your files are now in your own control :)

aerique• 7 years ago

There's pCloud[1] as well. I've been using it for a couple of years now after Dropbox → Google Drive → Seafile. (And maybe another one I forgot.)

They're not perfect but definitely good enough. They reeled me in with a lifetime subscription when I was contemplating buying a NAS for home.

Where I've run into syncing issues with them is working in a project directory with Git on Linux and Windows (using Git Bash). The latter (I think) caused syncing issues. Anyway, it's a bit niche and one isn't supposed to do this anyway. Still Dropbox and Seafile seemed to handle this fine.

[1] https://pcloud.com/

JackPoach• 7 years ago

Bitrix24 is another decent Dropbox alternative for group accounts. Available both on-premise and in cloud - https://www.bitrix24.com/features/docs.php

josteink4• 7 years ago

All the previous noise about explicitly disabling itself on ZFS (non ext4-filesystems) on Linux made me kind of disenfranchised with Dropbox.

It’s no longer the universal solution it used to be. That was it’s one unique selling point its competitors didn’t have. Good job ruining it!

If my next phone is an Android, I’ll probably move everything to syncthing and call it a day.

paxys2• 7 years ago

Are there any open-source file syncing apps out there that you can point to your own AWS account? Sure you are still dependent on another service, but S3 costs are negligible compared to Dropbox or others.

neurostimulant• 7 years ago

NextCloud supports S3 as primary data storage.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/13/admin_manual/configurat...

eemil2• 7 years ago

Seafile's paid version support S3 backend storage and is free for 3 users.

needle0• 7 years ago

Feeling some deja vu, as it's quite similar to what Evernote did (also equally feeling like shooting themselves in the foot in regards to user goodwill). Well, at least I already have a crapton of devices synced and they didn't retroactively disable it like Evernote did.

teekert• 7 years ago

So, you set up Nextcloud in snap a [0] on some home computer or server and then leave it like that... or, if you must, point Dropbox to the the same folder on said pc/server (remember to use Ext4 people, ugh) and group clients like that. But at this point, I'd be looking for alternatives.

[0] https://snapcraft.io/nextcloud

bane• 7 years ago

I'm weirdly fine with this. I've noticed over the years that I'm using dropbox less and less as competitors have sliced up the file-syncing and sharing problem in different ways. For example, one of the things I used to use DB for was to make sure documents or other media were available on all my devices. Now I just host them with an ebook server or plex or whatever. Lots of my office document needs are covered with Google drive or Office 365.

My work uses OneDrive extensively and it integrates really well across devices and the web for on-line editing. Dropbox never really had a better use-case than syncing and missed the boat on using the easy u/l mechanism for various kinds of sharing/social activities. I'm more or less considering moving to OneDrive for home use as well even if the sync isn't quite as good because it works better than DB across almost all other parameters.

Also nobody here's mentioned Amazon Drive which I find interesting.

cozzyd• 7 years ago

"Fortunately" they also dropped support for XFS so I can't even use on my work computer anymore...

BrandoElFollito• 7 years ago

I moved to seafile. Excellent alternative covering all dropbox features.

simonebrunozzi• 7 years ago

This is what happens when a great company/product decides they want to squeeze money out of their customers.

I saw this happen with Evernote. It's starting to happen with Dropbox.

I wish there were a company really focused on the long term, and that cared about customers more than bottom line.

Dropbox / Evernote competitors: please, show up.

segmondy• 7 years ago

It's free. FREE. Free costs money. Give me a break. I use Dropbox & Evernote free tier. I can't complain about the limits, either I pay up or shut up and use it or find an alternative.

goerz8• 7 years ago

The problem isn't having limits on the free tier. The problem is changing the services for existing accounts (free or otherwise), in this case to completely cripple free accounts. I wouldn't even complain if they only applied the 3-device restriction to new free accounts

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