Are they just thrashing around at this point without vision?
Most of what I’ve seen launch from them has been… undercooked.
I still use them as I don't have time to move else where. Plus they run on Linux and windows which is what I need.
I wish they had "I'm only interested in file sync" mode so that the whole mess of other features is hidden from me.
Unfortunately dropbox has been in the Enshittification phase for quite a while. They had a good while where they had extra features but no one used them cause no one wanted random feature 'x' from dropbox, they just wanted to sync files so dropbox began pushing them in your face and making you work to get what they had working perfectly 15 years ago.
Are you able to say what the relevant settings are? (I would like to be able to do that too ...)
Or is Dropbox hunkering down? Their market cap is $7.6bln on a roughly flat $2.5bln in revenue (compared to $4.5bln and $1.1 for Box) which suggests they're still relevant. Perhaps they're accepting that growth is gone, and time to focus on the cost side?
realityfactchex•5mo ago
I had expected from the link/article title ("Dropbox Passwords Discontinuation") that Dropbox was going passwordless in general, e.g. for their main data sync product. This does *not* appear to be the case.
At least this news restores the normal order to things.
[0] https://www.dropbox.com/features/security/passwords
gboone•5mo ago
realityfactchex•5mo ago