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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53 points

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.”

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13 points

What did they say to your remark?

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42 points

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?

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16 points

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

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8 points

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

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2 points

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.

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

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

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13 points

Got thrown out of a window

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