[dheera]

I use Dropbox because they don't try to innovate on the UI side. I use it mainly to sync certain directories (like fonts, desktop backgrounds, themes, dotfiles, certain /etc files, code workspaces, and other configuration files) across my Linux machines.

It's also a billion times more easy to use Dropbox with people from China than Google Drive because you can set up an EC2 server in Japan, install the command line version of Dropbox, and have it serve a synced directory over HTTPS from a non-blocked IP address. Can't do that easily with Google Drive or anything that tries to be too much.

[jayvanguard]

Same. Innovation is not what I want out of Dropbox. I want stability, speed, and continued bug fixes.

The one point I agree with him on though is that the web interface could use some work.

[xasos]

This is what happened with Google. The innovated on the UI front multiple times, and I'm really starting to dislike their new design changes on Drive, GMail (by way of Inbox), etc.

[mreiland]

I haven't been happy with GMails UI in a very long time. I've moved onto fastmail in part because of how much I started to dislike their UI.

I've been on fastmail for 11 months now and couldn't be happier.

[seanp2k2]

But a big blue + button in the bottom-right corner totally makes sense as "file -> new" on a desktop interface! What's not to like?!

[xauronx]

Google drive is almost unusable to me now. Always takes like 5 minutes to figure out where my stuff is.

[cefstat]

The reason I am not committing to Dropbox Pro is because I need to use such a service when I'm in China (and with people in China). Setting up an EC2 server, configuring apache or nginx, setting up some access control, etc., goes completely against the whole idea of Dropbox being simple. Also, it's one way, unless you go to extra lengths to setup some upload system. Of course if this is something you use several times each day then it's worth setting up, but for occasional use it's really an overkill. By the way, no, I haven't found any good substitute for Dropbox that works in China.

[dheera]

Yeah, I said that mainly for my somewhat niche case of having a team that works together on stuff in the US but needs to on occasion share files to partners in China or team members who need to access files while in China. Agreed that it isn't the most convenient but once you set it up it just takes care of itself for the most part. Dropbox is just syncing files so there isn't much that can break.

[em3rgent0rdr]

ownCloud will work in china because you run it off your own server.