[bigiain]

For me, this was the most-used feature. "a folder that syncs" was a nice side effect.

(I know - I'm clearly not "their most valuable customer segment" - if I was them I'd probably be breaking my irrelevant-to-them shit too...)

[TeMPOraL]

The Public folder is what dragged me in fully and made me stay with Dropbox. I am their paying customer now, and this very moment, I'm considering whether I'm pissed off about the thing enough to move those few gigs of data I have with Dropbox to some self-hosted solution.

[bigiain]

Yeah - I've got an AWS account which in months where I don't use anything except my S3 storage costs me around 90c/month - and I have a licence for Transmit which gives me almost identical folder-sync like behaviour from Mac OS. There's some useful-to-me stuff the iOS Dropbox app does, but for 90-100/year I suspect I can solve or ignore that problem...