[dangus]

It’s a shame that such fantastic engineering work is buried behind a product with so many annoyances dictated by the marketing/revenue teams.

I wish Dropbox would make some kind of “classic edition” that removed annoyances from their desktop client.

Until then, I’m using Filen. It’s fine, I have some qualms with it but it runs on every platform including Linux, it’s affordable, and end to end encrypted.

[rkagerer]

I wish Dropbox would make some kind of “classic edition” that removed annoyances from their desktop client.

They absolute do!

https://help.dropbox.com/installs/simplified-desktop-applica...

Here's a screenshot:

https://i.imgur.com/7g2xRJP.png

It's just a non-intrusive little menu that lives on your system tray. No ads, nags, bloat or unwanted new "features" pushed onto you. It resembles their original software much more than it does the latest garbage to come out of that company.

The context menu shortcuts in File Explorer for Copy Link, Share, and View on Dropbox still work. Sync works. Most of the other crap is gone. It's great. It was so refreshing when it got installed. I would have left Dropbox by now without it.

[dangus]

Wow! It looks maybe a little hard to trust given that it’s clearly designed for older OSes but maybe I’ll play with it since my account is free tier anyway.

(I guess for Linux I could run the headless daemon, I think only the standard desktop experience is available)

[qingcharles]

Wow, it basically looks like it has all the good bits and all the jank taken out. Thank you.