[tschwimmer]

I think your first point about enterprise vs consumer is very true. I don't even think it's a recent change.

What I disagree with is your opinion about VC money. If they didn't take VC money Dropbox in its current state wouldn't exist. The costs to support free accounts is staggering - there is a very real dollar cost associated with running a giant farm of storage servers. But free accounts are also crucial to Dropbox's business. It's very natural to run out of space and then decide to upgrade to a paid account. So you can see there's a bootstrapping problem. How do you support these free users while they add enough stuff to convert? This seems like a pretty good usecase for VC to me.

I'd also push back a bit on sticking to 'their core vision.' I don't know how much more there is to do there: Dropbox is already best in class in sync and backup. I'm not saying there are no improvements, but they are decidedly more incremental than in the business collaboration space.

[xupybd]

I used to pay for Dropbox but they removed support for my file system at work. So I no longer have a use case for Dropbox.

[mixmastamyk]

Curious why they would be operating at that level?

[xupybd]

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Error-messages/Dropbox-clien...

The cost of maintaining support was too high I think. There are very few of us using unsupported file systems.

[epberry]

I would guess it was an encrypted Linux filesystem. We went through that. It was a pain to get it switched.

[AndrewDavis]

It's not just encrypted file systems that are no longer supported.

Ext4 is the only supported filesystem. No xfs, btrfs, zfs etc.

[marchenko]

It was quite aggravating when my shared Dropbox folder on a dual-boot Windows/Linux System lost support. It was the main reason I switched from GDrive to Dropbox (besides trying to gradually de-Google). Now I have 2 Dropbox folders on one machine.

[brianwawok]

Luckily you can make a tiny ext4 mount for Dropbox and leave the rest of your drive alone.