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KyuubiNoKitsune , 10 months ago to technology in Dropbox Axes Unlimited Cloud Storage for Businesses

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.

winky88 , 10 months ago

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.

lud , 10 months ago to technology in Dropbox Axes Unlimited Cloud Storage for Businesses

I suspected this after I saw that post on r/datahoarder or maybe r/sysadmin

otl , 10 months ago

Which post?

applejacks , 10 months ago

You can find tons of posts up people bragging about using up many petabytes of data.

Player2 , 10 months ago

Unlimited means unlimited, they shouldn’t advertise that if they can’t provide it

applejacks , 10 months ago

found the guy that sits around at the buffet the entire day stuffing his face with food.

Player2 , 10 months ago

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

otl , 10 months ago

Ha yes just had a look. Seems like a funny thing to brag about when they’re not the ones administering the storage system!

CaptObvious , 10 months ago to technology in Dropbox Axes Unlimited Cloud Storage for Businesses

I haven’t used Dropbox in years. Honestly, I’m a little surprised that they’re still around. There are so many better alternatives.

applejacks , 10 months ago

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.

CaptObvious , 10 months ago

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.

procrastinator , 10 months ago

what did you switch to over calibre?

CaptObvious , 10 months ago

I’ve begun just using PDFs instead.

applejacks , 10 months ago

PDF is so much worse on eReaders…

CaptObvious , 10 months ago

They work fine on my devices, but everyone will have different preferences.

applejacks , 10 months ago

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.

madcaesar , 10 months ago

What did you go to from calibre?

CaptObvious , 10 months ago

I’ve begun just using PDFs instead.

lud , 10 months ago

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.

CaptObvious , 10 months ago

The interface is clunky and it generally just doesn’t work very well for me.

drwho , 10 months ago

Businesses love Dropbox because orgs can be set up and central management of accounts is possible.

pup_atlas , 10 months ago

That has been a feature in all of their competitors for 10+ years.

applejacks , 10 months ago to technology in Dropbox Axes Unlimited Cloud Storage for Businesses

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.