Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Dropbox follows the Yahoo model
For several years I've been paying for a full Dropbox account. It was needed when I was working with NYC publisher on courseware. I kept it going after the work was done for two reasons.
(1) A new courseware contract is possible but unlikely. [July 2017: It happened after all.]
(2) Better reason is to serve as a holder for blog material. I've been using UOL/FreeServers for this purpose, but they're getting flaky about payments. Almost every month their payment system rejects my card, and I have to go in and switch to the other card, which then succeeds. Card #2 fails the next month, so I switch back to card #1 which then succeeds. Both cards are perfectly good for all other vendors. UOL's system is obviously fucked. Maybe it doesn't wait long enough for the bank's return info. At some point this mess will fail entirely, so I've been trying to find an alternative.
Dropbox is easier to use, I'm already set up and paying, and their payment system never fails.
Now Dropbox has made this use impossible with a new policy that eliminates Public folders. You can't use Dropbox as a repository for embedded images.
They must be inviting Marissa to buy them out. They want to look maximally attractive to Marissa, so they're eliminating useful features. Only useless shit is good enough for Marissa.
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