@Brad B.

Are you seriously? Do you think that there is not a company that makes such a cloud for a year?

@Brad B. 

I agree that a feature like this will go through (which is essentially) normal development before going live. It will need to be roadmapped, designed, and tested before we can use it. That said, people have been asking for this feature for at least 10 months, but, according to Ed., our request has only just been passed on internally. I don't think anybody is suggesting that it will be done tomorrow, but rather just feeling frustrated that the response has been lacking.

I think Eric W.'s frustration was more about the perceived general apathy towards adding this feature and us, their paying customers, than anything else.

I agree with Brad.

I would add that it is only logical that Dropbox gives priority to the bulk of their user base, which, I suspect, does not care much about regex or .dropboxignore files.

Yes, we have a thread with many upvotes on the Dropbox forum... but most people using Dropbox do not even know about the existence of the Dropbox forum :-)

Reading this thread I got the idea that many "complainers" are people with a programming background - including me.

Dropbox probably prefers to employ their resources in implementing something that a wider audience would appreciate, e.g. some collaborative feature that I neither understand nor use.

I am saying this just to put things in perspective for those who appear to take it personally: it sucks that Dropbox ignores us, but probably it just means that they are giving precedence to their wider user base.

Cheers,

Guido

Exactly, Guido.

To be fair, this forum is where everyone is directed to if they want to get in touch with Support or have an issue (it's actually pretty hard to get in touch in other ways -- took me a while to find another route when I wanted to get in touch directly): I didn't come here because I'm a developer, I came here because I had an issue that I Googled, and this looked like a place where I might find a solution (how wrong!).

One thing we can be sure about: This forum was created for users of Dropbox to raise and discuss issues by Dropbox themselves. They put the voting system in place as a way of helping them understand what their customers want, and what's important to them. To assume that that system is faulty, and the issues raised here do not represent their customer base is quite a leap for me. You may be right, but the available evidence (from the system Dropbox themselves created to assess such things) seems to indicate otherwise.

Either way, to learn that our request has only just been passed on to the developers now is, I think, understandably frustrating.

I would seriously like to know if this feature is likely to be roadmapped, because I going to have to look for an alternative solution that fits my needs otherwise (which I really don't want to do).

@Johnny: Oh, definitely. I am in total agreement there. Even if we knew it was in development, or being tested, that would quell any notions that I have of moving on to a competitor for my solutions as well.

I missed that earlier in the thread that someone HAS written a `.gitignore` for DropBox. 

http://konolige.com/dbignore/

It's called DBIgnore and claims to do everything we're all clamouring for. I'm going to give it a try and post back with my experiences.

EDIT: Sorry, my bad. It doesn't work :(

dbignore is currently broken

Recent versions of Dropbox do not work with dbignore. I currently lack the time fix dbignore.

@Johnny: dbignore is broken: https://github.com/tkonolige/dbignore

Edit: missed your edit :)

Yep, it's a shame. I thought I'd missed a great solution for a moment there!

Guys, don't forget to upvote the original post for major visibility!