[dangrossman]

700 million people use them, and 17 million are on a paid plan. I still use Dropbox, because I don't trust that I'd be able to reach a helpful human at Google should anything happen to my Google account.

[BbzzbB]

700M, is that active users? Or does my old account I haven't touched in forever counts?

[ta988]

Yours and all the ones that robots created for encrypted movie and music sharing.

[wollsmoth]

we may have different account types but they started wiping inactive accounts a while back. I never installed the client on my computer though, so that probably didn't help.

[BbzzbB]

I had pictures of an abroad internship from winter 2014-15 that I was able to find last year as I was aggregating all my pictures.

But I just checked their filings, the 700M figure is indeed "registered" users, not "active" ones. Which makes a lot more sense. There are not a lot of services with 700M monthly active users out there.

[danuker]

Storing data for almost 10% of the human population. That's impressive.

[BbzzbB]

How many duplicates tho? Accounts are only tied to emails AFAIK, how can they tell I'd be the same user behind 2 accounts?

Granted, it's kind of splitting hair considering it's still gonna be in the 9 figures, which is impressive regardless of where it is in that range.

[Msw242]

Does this event shake your confidence in Dropbox's helpful humans?

[dangrossman]

Not yet, as it's just a tweet with no details about what happened after he contacted said humans, if he has.