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Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffWhat's new in Dropbox - 5th Edition
Hi all
Welcome to another edition of our 'What's New in Dropbox'. If you missed any previous edition, you can read them all here.
The goal of this edition is to give you a bit more insights on what's happening in Dropbox and Dropbox Paper. You're welcome to add comments and feedback!
Thanks and have a great read :)
Hope you enjoyed it!
Integrat paper to dropbox folders and create a desktop app which can be changed offline
Great!
- Add tagging capabilities to files. Then add a way to sort/view by tag. Folders work in some areas but are cumbersome in the photo folder. This seems like a no brainer but would love to here some technical/marketing/business related reasons why this isn't practical. I see Dropbox attempting to grow outside of file storage with Paper and the new professional oriented services which is cool BUT Dropbox is used by the masses because it does one thing better than everyone else- effortlessly manages files across multiple platforms. I want to support Dropbox and see them do awesome. The direction they seem to be going doesn't appear to jive with the reasons I use the service. Any thoughts?
Come on Dropbox, give us back our green tick on the taskbar icon.
Over twenty pages of unhappy customers on this thread here
Regards
John
In the past I used to click the name of files and folders to open them. That was it.
Now, if I happen to have something selected, which happens so often due to the many tasks that are done, clicking on file and folder names no longer opens them! It selects them instead, even though I'm not clicking the selection checkbox on the left, even though I'm clicking the file name link!
This means that now in order to open a folder or file it's necessary to first unselect every file and folder that is checked, and only then click, instead of clicking straight away. And there is no reason for why you coded it like this. None.
There aren't many comments here. Why is the staff not replying with rational arguments to every single comment made? Why aren't they communicating with reason but are instead doing wrongful illogical changes?
- Wait until you discover you can't right-click anymore...
- It looks nicer but I do miss seeing the file sizes.
Also I don't know how I feel about removing the old dropbox context-menu on right-click. I like being able to use the default context menu but sharing files now takes an extra half-second
RichardDBXHi Matthew G.10, quick note that you can sort by file size on the web by clicking the "Members" column header a couple of times. This toggles that column to display different information – one of them being file size!
Re clicking Members to get different information: Who designs this way?! While I'm happy (read: relieved) to have that functionality back (file size), I would NEVER have known about it if I hadn't been poking around in this forum. Functionality not visible in the UI is pretty useless. (So what now, I have to click on every... damned.... thing on every Dropbox page, to discover hidden, essential features?)
And please. We all know you're trying to be Google Drive, but be advised that Google UIs are, on the whole, terrible. So, don't try too hard!
I like much of the new stuff, but miss e.g. the right-clicking and straight multi-file downloads.
I certainly like the new 'Recents' folder. It would be really great if we could have a 'go to containing folder' option in the file's [...] menu, for e.g. drag and drop of a downloaded and edited file from computers that cannot have the Dropbox client due to organizational administrative rules. I hope you guys can sneak that one in.- Hey, I can figure out how to use the new web page, but don't see what benefit it provides. Looks like dropbox.com just got a new broom and checking to see if it works.
- Hey, dropbox.com has changed and it now takes more steps and more time to upload photos and share a folder. Does anyone know of a good data storage provider that is more sensitive to customer needs?
I am using dropbox.com to navigate a directory hierachy. There doesn't seem to be a way to up a directory. I can use the "back" button but it navigates through all of the pictures and documents I opened in a directory leaf. There should be a way to move up through a directory hierarchy.
The old events log was VERY useful, especially when I am looking for the files I hurriedly uploaded during a client meeting- like I was the very day this new UI went live.
I see the old /events URL extension still works and formats to the new UI. How about making it a navigable option from Recents?Why did you remove the % used from the drop down menu? It's now so much more annoying to go hunt for it.
- The latest trends in UI's over-simplify pages render them almost useless. I like the earlier interface. The trend toward flat, washed-out colors/gray/single-color is plain ugly. How does it help productivity? Why are we going back in time? We have multiple core, fast cpus and video, why are we going to these plain, boring interfaces which hide everything? The information density on the new UI is very limited in functionality. More mouse clicks and scrolling are required, features are hidden or non-existent. Your effort to make it "simple" actually makes it more complicated. If I were accessing on a phone I cam see why it might be OK however I like to see options, I like choices and I feel the new UI is poor. Not everyone accesses your site on a phone or tablet. Can you provide an option to display the older UI, please?
- I completely agree. with your statement 100%.
