I support their growth because their biggest competitors are Apple, Google and Microsoft. I want there to exist a relatively independent competitor with decent market share.

I don’t blame them for it, but I did switch to using iCloud Drive instead of Dropbox because I am already paying for iCloud for photos, and the space is so much cheaper for the small amount I need.

They were able to give me a cheaper plan with a smaller capacity. A little later, my storage tier was less than the amount they were offering for free, and they stopped billing me.

I don't know if they're still willing to do that, but that gesture earned a lot of goodwill from me.

> Their core sync engine is truly amazing

Compared to current competitors (e.g. pCloud) their syncing has been a mess. It tends to take forever to sync even the smallest files. I have no idea what's going on there anymore.

I don't use my full xfer allowance on my VPC all by myself so I flip on my relay every month to use it up.

I've been using Dropbox since it's beta days around 2007 or 2008. I'm still a paying customer, but at this point I'm not exactly sure why.

Back in the day it's sync was far superior than any of their competitor's, but now it's largely a bunch of half baked features and products.

Until they recently made Smart Sync available to non-business customers nothing they had released was of any use to me. Mailbox was okay, but Inbox by Google was far superior. I tried using Paper for ~5 minutes. Once I realized I couldn't import my existing .txt or .md files it was of no use to me.

It would be great if I were able to sync any/all of my got repos, but without a Dropbox version of .gitignore this simply just isn't an option. Who wants to sync the node_modules directory? Not me.

I revisited it late last year, and I now use it heavily. Their markdown shortcuts are what hooked me. It's not perfect, but I do a lot of my notes in it now.

Can you elaborate on this limit of devices that you're talking about? Are you on a free account?

I will say that the quality of certain clients is hit-or-miss but overall it gets me exactly what I need: a folder that syncs across devices and platforms.

I have a lot of stuff backed up into my 2TB account, and I'm still floating at only around 1TB of used storage.

But I don't take a lot of videos. I can see people with families who record a lot of HD video use up a lot of space more quickly than me.