Re:Introducing the Keybase filesystem
by lewisl9029 on Thursday February 04, 2016 @06:33PM
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At one point OneDrive used a similar approach, and power users loved it.
But they've since moved away from that in favor of Dropbox-style selective sync for reasons that didn't seem very convincing to me. [1]
[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/onedri...
Not storing files locally sounds like a good idea at first - you don't have any syncing issues. But nobody has a perfect always-on internet connection. Having files local is worth the occasional sync cockup.
Re:Introducing the Keybase filesystem
by chadnickbok on Friday February 05, 2016 @02:24PM
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Oh for sure there's a reason that approach is dropbox's default - its really hard for people to understand their files aren't really "there".
That said, my point is more that for people who start storing 100GB+ of data, it becomes harder and harder to actually manage which bits you want at any time.
Additionally, creating an easy way to share files with friends without taking up their quota is awesome. This looks like it could be a very, very powerful competitor to Dropbox.