I don't think the consumer space is something Dropbox is really interested in. I don't blame them and they probably have the numbers to back up their decision to drop photo galleries.<p>I thought Carousel was going to be a big success[1] but it didn't hit the mark like I suspected. Even if it did I doubt it would generate any meaningful revenue for them.<p>Google has figured out the consumer photo space with Google Photos. Their general approach was simply better than Carousel which was too focused on socializing. Even there they would have been outdone by Google Photos; not to mention the crazy AI which comes along with Google Photos.<p>Shameless plug for an open source EXIF-based photo workflow automation tool[2][3] I wrote and used with Dropbox but now use with Google Drive / Google Photos / Synology.<p>[3] <a href="http://github.com/jmathai/elodie" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/jmathai/elodie</a><p>[2] <a href="https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal-exif-based-photo-and-video-assistant-d92868f302ec" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@jmathai/introducing-elodie-your-personal...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://medium.com/@jmathai/thoughts-on-dropbox-carousel-e5aad177400a" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@jmathai/thoughts-on-dropbox-carousel-e5a...</a>
Trust the cloud they said, it's always there they said.<p>In all seriousness, the need for local, speedy, transparent and ubiquitous data redundancy is still there and if anything growing.<p>Consumers want a 'refrigerator' of data - be it documents, photos, etc. Buy, set and forget.<p>Huge opportunity there.
It looks like they are moving towards folders as an organizing principle instead of an album abstraction. More information here: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/help/photos-videos/changes-photos" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/help/photos-videos/changes-photos</a>
Plug for SmugMug here: $40/year for, as far as I understand it, unlimited photo and video storage. Great controls over sharing, easy to order prints, and the iOS app is getting better all the time. Plus, you are not the product. They just want to do photo storage well, and that's it.<p>Back when I was deciding on a service, I was down to Carousel and SmugMug. I liked the idea of paying Dropbox for space that would go beyond photos and I think Carousel was good at syncing photos from the iPhone, but I went with SmugMug for the reasons above and have not regretted it one bit.
Annoying. I was happy paying $100/yr for Dropbox to store my photos along with a few extra files. The photo features weren't great, but good enough for basic browsing through galleries. I bought into the idea that if I was paying for the storage it would be more durable and permanent than some fly-by-night photo startup or google/amazon feature. I realize the photos aren't going anywhere, but my use case is. Canceling my subscription to Dropbox... now.
Google's version (photos.google.com) is great. I love the auto-generated albums, animated gifs and movies. It's also very easy to share and create group albums.
Maybe I'm too old for this, but I read the title as "Dropbox <i>discontinues</i> photo galleries"<p>I still can't get used to the fact that drop means release.
For those looking into alternatives but do not like the auto-downsizing or quality reduction: Google Photos has an option to include (and upload too) your pictures stored with Google Drive.<p><a href="https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6156103?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6156103?co=GENIE.Pl...</a>
Funny, it seems that it has been a feature since the first day. Just yesterday I watched this [1] first demo of dropbox which notably mentioned the feature<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmCUDHpNzE</a>
What will be the next thing removed? Linux? Syncing? I mean I almost cancelled when the public folders were shut down. We tried Dropbox for business but after it not working out we had 50,000 files deleted at random and I had to restore them, one at a time...
Their monthly price for 1TB of storage is still less than Google Drive, but I've become increasingly frustrated with Dropbox. If I want 2TB instead of 1TB, I have to pay 4.5 times more. I can understand that they may want to go after business users and that I am not a core customer, but the pricing seems out of whack and then they keep on cutting features. For me, it's time to get off the train.
Dropbox is a strange company. They must be doing backend maintenance or something, but they seem to take away more features and function than they add.<p>I honestly don't get what they do as a company, and I love the product and have paid for years. They hold back basic features like search and now take away stuff like albums that freeware packages can do?
This seems to be 'why': Will I still be able to share photos directly from my Dropbox account to Facebook or Twitter?
After July 17, you’ll no longer be able to share photos directly from your Dropbox account to social media. You can use shared links to share files or folders on social media.
When you scroll down on the page, the logo at the top suddenly animates and contracts horizontally. The "Dropbox" word disappears and only the box logo remains. This serves no visible purpose and merely serves to distract the reader.<p>Logo animations when scrolling were introduced in order to be able to shrink the size of the header, to give more room for the content. But the header on this page does not shrink at all.<p>The funny thing is that this page, while following the norms of flat design, has managed to adopt skeuomorphism in the worst way. The shrinking logo had a use on pages that shrink the header, but here is remains as a pure decoration, with no functional purpose.
This title is misleading. Dropbox is "dropping" photo galleries in favor of something more integrated[1]:<p>"The Photos page will be replaced with a new, streamlined photos experience that looks more like our redesigned Dropbox website. You’ll be able to access it by navigating to dropbox.com/photos or clicking on Photos in the left-hand menu of dropbox.com."<p>[1] <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/help/photos-videos/changes-photos" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/help/photos-videos/changes-photos</a>
This sucks. I used this all the time. Does anyone know a similar, anonymous service? I want private sharing links and I don't want a username displayed on the gallery page like Google Photos.