Is that really a good thing?

What if you had finished up a document at home, thought it synced but it never did, and then showed up at a clients a few hours later wondering why you still had the old version on your phone/laptop?

Wouldn't you have wanted DropBox to let you know something was going on?

> Wouldn't you have wanted DropBox to let you know something was going on?

This is such a hard thing to balance. I hate nagging notifications. Dropbox makes it really easy to see what the service status is. I glance at my menu bar/system tray icon, and look for the green check. If I don't see the green check, I know my docs haven't synced.

This is a glaring case of rose tinted glasses! Of course you'd want to know you were working on out of date src/document/etc...

I already know that. The Dropbox icon is always within sight and provides immediate feedback on the status of your Dropbox:

Green check - good to go! Blue cycle - syncing Blank icon - no connection

Not wanting a nag is not rose tinted glasses. If there is an improvement to be made, it would be in the last icon. Blank doesn't exactly scream "we're down". If the Dropbox client can't get a connection to the service, but it can see that a network link is available, it should give some indication that it is not connected, like some manner of red indicator.

It refused to run for me insisting that I relink my machine, and then taking me to the website to do so where that then gave an error. It was only this morning that I finally managed to get things running again.