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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  Sir Dougby Chicken Caesar (@zamoose) reported 6 minutes ago

  Dear @1Password: are y'all listening? This is me too. You've succumbed to the Dropbox error and are putting all sorts of unnecessary (and insecure) stuff inside an app that should be rigorously single-focused. Please reconsider. I'd gladly keep paying for a maintenance mode.

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  Saul (@SaulSellsStuff) reported 8 minutes ago

  I solved a huge marketing and social pain point with AI. The team connects their Google Drive and Dropbox. Claude then recreates a much lighter thumbnail for speed of loads. Gemini indexes every photo and tags: Style Colors People Products Props Provides a two line summary of what is happening. The photos get bucketed. This runs every 4 hours for new photos added. Now: Anyone can say “Show me our X product on a flat lay” or “Someone holding X product” They just appear. Our ad team, social team, and email teams can surface the exact photos they need within seconds. No more file structure issues. Weird names. Losing huge photo sets. Having to remember anything. I’m using Gemini 2.0-Flash. Costs you a couple dollars for 10,000 photos.

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  Luan Teles ❁ (@LuanTeles) reported 9 minutes ago

  @uppastdark It looks like dropbox links are not working on the ps3 anymore.

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  Josh Humble (@joshhumble) reported 12 minutes ago

  Syncing and backup services suck, both on-site and online. I've had to quit Dropbox, due to a barrage of terrible new policies for Mac years ago. iDrive is now taking days for simple backups of a few gigs, and my Lacie syncing service for my Lacie's started randomly deleting files on my HD last year. Why can't we just get GOOD software without the drama of software engineers??? Any suggestions for a real backup service that doesn't screw with their customers would be appreciated.

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  Umar Sabiu Kane @Spurprotocol (@Umarkane5) reported 12 minutes ago

  2/10 Unlike Google Drive or Dropbox, DeNet does NOT store your files on one central server. Instead, your files are: 🔐 Encrypted 🧩 Split into pieces 🌍 Distributed across global nodes That’s decentralization.

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  Startup Drivers by Odigital (@startupdrivers_) reported 13 minutes ago

  Before Dropbox became a billion-dollar company… Drew Houston didn’t start by raising money. He started with a problem.

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  Statutorynx (@statutorynx) reported 15 minutes ago

  10 little tips to keep your divorce lawyer fees down. How to manage your divorce on a budget, these habits will save you 1. Use a shared folder Upload documents to Dropbox or Google Drive. Don't print things and drop them off.

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  Luke (@lukecodez) reported 16 minutes ago

  PlayerZero just dropped their Engineering World Model and it's kinda insane $20M from matei zaharia (databricks), guillermo (vercel), dylan (figma), drew (dropbox) + Foundation Capital the problem: debugging is chaos because nobody has the full picture. support sees tickets, sre sees infra, devs see code. everything's fragmented. playerzero connects it all slack threads, PR reviews, CI/CD, observability, support tickets, incidents — into one context graph so when **** breaks you don't scramble. you just know. plus it learns from every incident. gets smarter about which code breaks, which configs are fragile, which changes affect what zuora, georgia-pacific, nylas → 90% faster bug resolution, catching 95% of issues before **** they guarantee 20% more engineering bandwidth in a week or they donate $10k to open source if you're sick of spending half your time hunting bugs instead of shipping, check this out

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  Eric Kaner (@EKaner21430) reported 23 minutes ago

  @BenjaminBadejo What's Dropbox? Microsoft shoves OneDrive down the throats of Windows users to steal your personal data. It's not a cloud service. It's a trojan horse.

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  The Reverend KFidds (@KFidds) reported 24 minutes ago

  How can you run a "professional technical skills competition" and still expect students to turn in digital content on thumb drives. What is this, 2011? Computers don't even have thumb ports. Google Drive and DropBox is industry standard. So small time and outdated. Terrible.

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  Gregor (@bygregorr) reported 25 minutes ago

  @rseroter @Dropbox Dropbox still at 87GB before the fix is wild. Mono repo size creep is silent until someone's waiting an hour to clone on day one.

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  Raziel (@tryraziel) reported 29 minutes ago

  Drew Houston was a college kid who kept forgetting his USB drive. Today Dropbox is worth $8B. Here's the brilliant strategy behind one of the most successful pivots in startup history. In 2007, Houston built a personal tool to sync files between computers. Simple problem, simple solution. But investors weren't buying it. Every VC said the same thing: "There are already 20 file storage companies. What makes you different?" Houston's breakthrough wasn't technical — it was psychological. Instead of building better storage, he realized people didn't want to think about storage at all. The magic wasn't in the cloud. It was in making the cloud invisible. The pivot: → Original idea: Online backup service (like everyone else) → New idea: Your files, everywhere, automatically → Key insight: Sync, don't store Houston spent months perfecting the demo video. No fancy features. Just a file appearing on multiple computers simultaneously. It looked like magic because it solved the real problem: friction. That video got 75,000 signups overnight. The lesson: Sometimes the billion-dollar idea isn't what you build — it's how you frame what already exists. Houston didn't invent cloud storage. He invented the feeling that your files just worked everywhere. What "obvious" problem in your daily life could be the next Dropbox?

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  Jim Jensen (@jensenje) reported 29 minutes ago

  @WindowsCentral ZeroDrive has always been buggy! Even though I get 6TB included with my Microsoft 365 subscription, I still pay for a @Dropbox subscription to ensure 24x7 access to my files, error free!

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  The Gold Standard (@goldstandard555) reported 29 minutes ago

  @yeah_i_saidthat @SCOburg616 @mattvanswol I just want to return to how we used to vote. Overseas residents and military can still vote by mail. So can elderly and disabled. I have no issues with that. But everyone else should vote on election day, early in person or some other secure method (dropbox with ID).

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  Stanley (@Golf_Stats) reported 30 minutes ago

  @LIVGolfComms Can you fix the R1 and R2 Reports for this event in Dropbox? The files have zero length.