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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)
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Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

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[–] foggy 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I worked for a company that was offering unlimited storage to its too tier customers.

I brought it up in a meeting when we first started talking about it.

"Okay but you don't mean unlimited. That's bad PR waiting to happen."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What did they say to your remark?

[–] foggy 42 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Roughly

"what do you mean?"

"You cannot offer something that doesn't exist. If Amazon decided to become a client, we'd be in a world of hurt."

"It's fine none of our clients use more than a few hundred gigs"

This was in 2018. They still offer unlimited storage. So I guess, what do I know?

[–] captainlezbian 16 points 2 years ago

Wow that’s low. If I’m paying for unlimited I expect to at least go over 2TB since I have the space

[–] carl_dungeon 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How much? I have about 65TB that could use a cheap backup!

[–] foggy 8 points 2 years ago

A little over $150/mo

Their service isn't storage, has nothing to do with it. But at a certain level of storage, it's... A steal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

May I ask what the company is? You don't have to disclose it publicly if you don't want, I have matrix setup on my profile here.

[–] kronicd 1 points 2 years ago

What's the company? I need to migrate away from Dropbox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what would they do if some user just decides to use more than their "limit"? like hundreds of TB?

[–] T156 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Boot them, most likely. Or eat the cost, and look to shutter the free space/apply limits ASAP.

Not unlike Amazon Cloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox here. There was someone on the datahoarders Reddit who famously shoved a Petabyte of Data into their Cloud Drive offering, and likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.

hope they had an offline backup.

[–] fluxion 13 points 2 years ago

Got thrown out of a window