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Re:Outage post-mortem by hnriot on Monday January 13, 2014 @10:24AM (#7051048)
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 Of course you'd want to know you were working on out of date src/document/etc...
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Re:Outage post-mortem by bradleyland on Monday January 13, 2014 @04:11PM (#7053288)
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.

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