Re:CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
by archagon on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:36PM
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There's a pronounced difference between flat-out marketing and posting interesting articles that help promote your product. It's clear to me which side of the divide Backblaze lies on. And I think Crashplan's shuttering bears this out: their tech was always a means to an end for them, and their end simply did not include power users.
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This is basically the marketing that got Backblaze it's respect.
The service features and GUI experience fall short, and yes I am widely just referring to the 30 day file retention. In practice, this basically means you need yet another plan to make up for that. Once you find that other plan, it should make Backblaze unnecessary if it works in a reasonable way.
Re:CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
by 5_minutes on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:48PM
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There's only so much interesting posts to do about "backups". It's a boring product, like "email". So you don't use gmail because the team doesn't do enough enthousiastic posts about it?
This is typically a product you just want to work and are not busy with reading the company's blog as long as things are working fine.
You set the settings and can forget about it.
That said, your whole post seems somewhat biased.