Tangentially: people were initially reluctant to try it, since they didn't want to bother signing up to a different service implying some general assumption that all Web sites or P2P networks (a) require an 'account' of some sort and (b) 'accounts' must be distinct and not reusable.

Once it kept cutting out and I recommended trying that didn't cut out and had much better quality video. I've also not used Google Hangouts, since I've heard that doing so would break the XMPP functionality of my Google Account (not sure how up-to-date this info is).Īnecdotally, I've been on Skype calls between friends (as in, connecting two rooms of people), and it seemed really laggy and low quality (this was post-Microsoft, which I hear changed the architecture from fast P2P to slow centralised, presumably for surveillance purposes). I've never had a Skype account, since it required installing proprietary software, and then it became Microsoft which put me off it even more. Unfortunately, I don't know of any solid alternatives to Dropbox, that have reliable non-flaky support on Linux, and good iOS and Android apps. When I don't have my Linux laptop, I'm forced to use Google Docs on my phone, even though I'd prefer to have all my notes/thoughts in my neatly organized collection text files. I keep all my notes and thoughts in plain text files. Compared to supporting editing MS Doc files, supporting plain text file editing would be so trivial for them to add, yet they haven't. md) - even though they've added support for editing MS Doc (.doc /. Moreover, the Dropbox mobile apps and web UI still do not support editing plain text files (.txt /. I've been a paying customer for 4+ years (at the $9.99/month level), and this is what I have to deal with. I had to back up all my files, reformat my F2FS partition to Ext4, and restore my files, to get Dropbox working again. So presumably, they probably just didn't want to QA on multiple systems, so laziness won.

It would have been just a few lines of code to check if the user was running a filesystem that had extended attributes support. Their excuse was that extended attributes support was critical to Dropbox, which is not a valid excuse since F2FS, XFS, ZFS, etc, all support extended attributes. Back in Nov 2018, Dropbox went down this same lazy and inexcusable path, by programming their Linux client to shut down on any file system that was not Ext4.

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