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  Sam :) (@SamB_46) reported 4 minutes ago

  $20 to whoever sends me a Dropbox audio file of the set bc I know they’re gonna take down whatever recording gets put on SoundCloud

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  𝕲𝖎𝖌 𝕯𝖎𝖌𝖌𝖊𝖗 (@Gig_Digger) reported 7 minutes ago

  @WFLA The problem is bidenflation reset everything higher, and its not like prices all go in reverse now. But thats also Biden should have never been put in office with dropbox stuffing.

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  Clayton Burns (@ClaytonBurnsPhD) reported 7 minutes ago

  @jayvanbavel There should be a phone day each week at school so students could learn an information cycle: Gmail, Google, Docs, Word, Dropbox, X. It is an important way to manage information. On the phone day students could look up the words they had collected over the week. OALD App is a brilliant tool. Another aspect of learning good phone management that we have not been able to grasp yet is that direct study of the issue will be helpful. There are many clear undergrad textbooks in cognitive psychology that would be effective every year in high school. One credentialing thing such as AP Psych is weak.

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  divyansh tiwari (@DivyanshT91162) reported 8 minutes ago

  The craziest part? Google and Dropbox built billion-dollar businesses… around a problem open source already solved for free years ago.

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  Damien White (@Visoft) reported 8 minutes ago

  User-centric design isn't optional anymore. Airbnb, Dropbox, FreshBooks—they all nail it by putting user needs at the center of every decision. Your homepage should solve problems, not create them. What's your biggest design friction point right now? 🎯

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  Rashford Eyo of Jeje Group (@rashfordeyo) reported 8 minutes ago

  2. Solve a problem that hurts. Dropbox got its first 5,000 users from a simple demo video. They didn’t have a following, just a pain point worth talking about.

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  iamAaruna (@arronnes) reported 11 minutes ago

  Tired of wasting hours hunting files across drives? Fix: Dokkio unifies Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive + more in one AI-powered search. Upload once → ask natural questions → get instant answers with sources. Result: Cut research time 70%. 🔥

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  The Insight Brief (@SimpleTech247) reported 11 minutes ago

  You pay Google $10/month to store your files. On Google's servers. Where Google can read them. You pay Dropbox $12/month. On Dropbox's servers. Where Dropbox can read them. You pay Apple $10/month. On Apple's servers. Where Apple can read them. Dropbox was breached in 2024. User emails, hashed passwords, API keys, and OAuth tokens were exposed. There is a tool that syncs your files directly between your own devices. No cloud. No server. No middleman. Ever. It's called Syncthing. 81,900+ stars on GitHub. Your files go directly from one device to another. Peer-to-peer. They never touch a third-party server. Not even Syncthing's. Here's what it does: → Syncs files between any number of devices in real-time. → Peer-to-peer. No central server. Your files go directly between YOUR devices. → TLS encryption with perfect forward secrecy on every connection. → Every device authenticated with a strong cryptographic certificate. → Works over LAN and internet. No port forwarding needed. → Selective folder sharing. Sync different folders with different people. → File versioning. Deleted or changed something? Roll it back. → Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Solaris, and more. → Web dashboard to monitor everything from your browser. → No account. No sign-up. Install it. Share a device ID. Done. Here's the wildest part: There is no Syncthing server. There is no Syncthing cloud. There is no company storing your data. The protocol is open and documented. There is nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel. Google has shut down 293 products. Dropbox has been breached. iCloud photos have leaked. Every cloud service is one policy change away from scanning everything you store. Syncthing can never shut down your files. Because your files were never on their servers. Dropbox Plus: $12/month. $144/year. Google One 2TB: $10/month. $120/year. iCloud+ 2TB: $10/month. $120/year. Syncthing: $0. Unlimited devices. Unlimited storage. Your hardware. Your files. Forever. 349 contributors. 464 releases. 5,000+ forks. Battle-tested since 2013. Run by the Syncthing Foundation. A Swedish non-profit. MPL-2.0 licensed. Open protocol. Peer-to-peer. Free forever. 100% Open Source.

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  The New Release Guy (@moviesplusgames) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Dropbox Like, gee, I wish I could make a ****** app and it just sell and I don't even need to fix bugs or introduce features. Must be nice if you're a big *** corporation. Only the people suffer.

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  Luna (@_LunarLunaa) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ilovetmrmygffr did the dropbox link work? got taken down a bit ago

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 13 minutes ago

  In April 2024, Dropbox disclosed that one compromised service account had given an attacker access to every active Dropbox Sign user's email, phone number, hashed password, API keys, OAuth tokens, and MFA data. Plus the names of everyone who had ever signed a document through the platform without even making an account. Syncthing has been around since 2013 and that breach is structurally impossible against it. 82,000 GitHub stars. MPL-2.0 license. Maintained by a Swedish non-profit foundation. Written in Go. The architecture is the whole product. Every device gets a cryptographic certificate. Traffic is TLS-encrypted end to end. Files move directly between machines you own through the Block Exchange Protocol. No central server gets compromised because no central server exists. Turn off the optional discovery and relay services and Syncthing has zero connection to anyone else's infrastructure. The reason cloud sync keeps producing breaches like the one above is structural. Centralized storage requires a single high-value target. The property that lets you log into Dropbox from a hotel computer is the same property that exposed every user when one service account fell. The convenience and the vulnerability are the same feature. Syncthing trades that property away. The cost is real. Both devices need to be online for sync to happen. There's no web UI you can hit from a borrowed laptop. No shareable link to text a friend. For most people that's a dealbreaker, which is why most people have never heard of Syncthing despite 13 years of open development. For files you actually care about, understand what the $120/year subscription is paying for. Storage at scale is close to free. The price covers an account, a server, a database, and a team that has to keep all three secure forever. The same surface area that made the 2024 breach possible. Dropbox can read your files. So can Google. So can Apple. Their architecture requires it. Syncthing literally cannot. Its architecture forbids it.

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  Gabriel Amzallag (@gabrielamzallag) reported 14 minutes ago

  Notion’s homepage doesn’t start with features. It starts with chaos. A cartoon of people drowning in tools. Google Docs. Quip. Jira. Evernote. Trello. Confluence. Dropbox Paper. Eight logos piled on top of each other like a mess on your desk. Then one calm line: “With Notion, all your work is in one place.” No feature grid. No “powered by AI.” No “trusted by 10,000 teams.” Just: here’s your mess. We clean it up. They didn’t trash competitors. They named them. The pile IS the argument. Drift did this too. Called out forms as the “old way” right on their homepage. Basecamp painted projects spiraling into chaos. Churnbuster showed you every failed fix you already tried. Same playbook: diagnose before you prescribe. If your homepage jumps straight to features, you’re skipping the part where your visitor goes “that’s exactly my problem.” Most founders sell the destination. The best ones describe the traffic jam you’re stuck in right now. Day 45 — Problem-First Homepage Copy Follow for a new distribution strategy every day

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  Dachswerk (@dachswerk) reported 16 minutes ago

  @Burnstation3D @gonecozycrafts The cloud was never cheaper. It was hyped to us as cheaper and more convenient. While I was working as DevOps it was cheaper for us to buy an IBM server than to use Azure. And with this AI thingy it's only gonna get more expensive. My Dropbox was hacked and I lost some Google docs because of their error. I have trust issues with cloud

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  Grok (@grok) reported 27 minutes ago

  @JeffNylen @PatrickHeizer Sure, the famous Dropbox HN critique (often paraphrased today as "just use rsync + SSH", but original was this by BrandonM in 2007): "I have a few qualms with this app: 1. 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. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. 2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive... This does not solve the connectivity issue. 3. It does not seem very 'viral' or income-generating." Drew ignored it and built a unicorn anyway. Parallels here? Trivial tech vs real execution.

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  Datos Drive (@DatosDrive) reported 27 minutes ago

  🔗 INTEGRATION ECOSYSTEM Already using other tools? No problem: • Import from Google Drive/Dropbox (one-click migration) • Connect to existing calendars • Sync with email clients • API for custom integrations • Webhook support for automation Bring your existing stack. We'll make it better.