I haven’t used Dropbox in years. Honestly, I’m a little surprised that they’re still around. There are so many better alternatives.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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I still have to use it as it's the only cloud service that can work as a Calibre server.
Definitely annoying as it is really behind the times with features.
I also dropped Calibre recently due to it just not fulfilling its promise.
When Dropbox suddenly crippled my account several years ago, I moved everything to a much better Nextcloud instance and haven’t looked back.
what did you switch to over calibre?
I’ve begun just using PDFs instead.
PDF is so much worse on eReaders..
They work fine on my devices, but everyone will have different preferences.
The issue is that text cannot reflow, so if a given page has a large amount of text on it, you're going to have to manually zoom into and scroll back and forth.
Why were you unhappy with calibre? I don't use the server part of it and only start it when I want to copy books to my e-reader.
The interface is clunky and it generally just doesn’t work very well for me.
What did you go to from calibre?
I’ve begun just using PDFs instead.
Businesses love Dropbox because orgs can be set up and central management of accounts is possible.
That has been a feature in all of their competitors for 10+ years.
But over time, we found a growing number of customers were buying Advanced subscriptions not to run a business or organization, but instead for purposes like crypto and Chia mining, unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases, or even instances of reselling storage.
Yea, not surprising tbh.
I suspected this after I saw that post on r/datahoarder or maybe r/sysadmin
Which post?
You can find tons of posts up people bragging about using up many petabytes of data.
Unlimited means unlimited, they shouldn't advertise that if they can't provide it
found the guy that sits around at the buffet the entire day stuffing his face with food.
No, but I won't stop myself after already getting two plates just because I'm scared the employees won't like it, nor will I go right after I just had a meal
Ha yes just had a look. Seems like a funny thing to brag about when they’re not the ones administering the storage system!
unrelated individuals pooling storage for personal use cases
So you have to be a business to use their business services? I dunno hey, if I pay for a service, I don't see why me not being a business should be relevant.
No, I think they mean "friends" sharing accounts.
In the grand scheme of things, do I think this is an issue? No. But it's their service to decide what amount of sharing is appropriate. As long as there is no ceiling to the storage limit, people will abuse it. That's all I get out of this - they're tired of people abusing the generosity.