I wish they would return to their "a folder that syncs" model. I feel like Dropbox has not improved in any point in the last 5 years. Their core sync engine is truly amazing, but everything else is a mess. They killed that one Mail app, they have this thing called "Paper" they try to shove onto me on every occasion, their desktop app is cluttered with information I don't care about and is now a web app, now they have this limit of 3 maximum number of devices (which they didn't have the first 5 years I've used the service)... the list goes on.<p>I just want a folder. A folder that syncs.
Since people are commenting on how they hate Dropbox offering additional products beyond the basic file syncing, I feel compelled to say that I really like Paper. I use it for all my personal note-taking, and our company wiki is in there since they make it really easy to share folders with the whole team. It's basically Google Docs but waaaay faster (both in terms of the actual page speed, and the speed with which I can use it due to the more streamlined UI).<p>It has the best WYSIWYG markdown editor I've ever used which makes note-taking super simple. Good search, a few nice features like assigning tasks to people within documents, etc. but otherwise it just gets out of your way.<p>I hear they're about to move it into the core Dropbox file system which could be great (it's always been a bit annoying that Dropbox's main offering is basically just an online file system and yet Paper had a totally different folder structure) but I'm also worried that it might make the experience a bit heavier which would negate the main reason I use it.
I gave up on Dropbox when I could no longer open the context menu of a file in my Dropbox folder and click the "get link" button and then paste it to someone.<p>It used to be a very useful piece of software.
My biggest question when seeing this headline was "why?"<p>> It does make sense for Dropbox to enter the password manager market, considering that many existing passwords already use Dropbox as a cloud option to sync data between devices.<p>I disagree with this. Dropbox is a file syncing service. The statement above is like "people use Dropbox already to share work-in-progress designs, so it makes sense for Dropbox to make a Photoshop competitor." Or, stretching it farther, "People want their email to be available on all devices, so it makes sense for Dropbox to get into the email service business."<p>Password managers today are quite good. I'm sure Dropbox is big enough to create a competitive password manager, but is that really the best bet? Put another way: I wonder what it is that Dropbox thinks they can bring to this space?
Lots of negativity in here. As a paying Dropbox customer, I am interested to see what Dropbox can bring to the table. I’ve been stuck on 1Password 6 since they moved to a subscription model. If Dropbox’s offering works well, I would switch.
So here is what my family did for years: a keepass DB in a Dropbox folder under a shared Dropbox account. Various Keepass clients on all the devices.<p>We don't pay for Dropbox, so this is broken now with the 3-client limit. And it was always slightly complicated ... I couldn't get non-techies to try it so I don't really recommend it to others (rather I recommend the lastpasses).<p>Anyway, this change makes sense to me. They'll make it a notch more user-friendly than using keepass, while raising questions about portability and whether we can trust dropbox with this. Hardly anybody cares about those issues.
What I don't understand is why the big browser makers -- Google, Apple, Mozilla and Microsoft -- makers don't just offer this service.<p>80% of the plumbing is already there, why not just extend the UI? Generate unique, high-entropy passwords and store them in a user account.<p>Or add this in the OSes themselves -- Apple already does a version of this with keychain. What's preventing them from just copying all the other features of 1Password and LastPass?<p>Seems like it would do a lot for web security.
And that will probably be added to Dropbox client, making it use even more RAM.<p>Any suggestions for Dropbox alternatives? Funny thing is, I don't need more than 2GBs of encrypted storage, just for some documents to backup off-site and share them between few devices at home.