You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Please, please, please make the text of our file names wrap instead of cutting out the middle so that we can read them without changing our phone to landscape mode. Please… It’s really annoying to only see about 10 characters in the first part of the title. It makes the your app too hard to use. Please change this. Usability is everything when it comes to apps and this has always made your app frustating to workflow.
Yes yes yes 1000% yes! This bugs the hell out of me with a lot of apps. Wrap the text! It's not a difficult thing to do and would make life so much easier. Please Dropbox, it's a 5 minute fix.
- Inside of the Dropbox mobile app (on Android v.12) the file names on list view and thumbnail view are truncated.
I mainly access Dropbox from my mobile devices and I like to name my files very useful and descriptive names. However, when the names are cut off this prevents me from browsing my files entirely and makes my names entirely useless. The sole purpose is to browse my files and truncation is ruining this for me, to be honest.
Since Dropbox is a file storage software, critical information like file names should never be truncated. Instead, they should wrap to the next line to allow for complete reading and fast browsing at a glance. I like to sort my files based on their name and often, important distinctions are at the middle or at the end of the name. Clicking into every file to check the file name is tedious and ruins the experience entirely and doesn't allow me to easily manage my information on the go at all. Besides possible detriments to the user experience, the latest version of wcag says that truncation is not accessible at all, and should be avoided.
Please refer to the guidelines here: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/resize-text.html
Otherwise, I enjoy the updates to the software so far. And I enjoy the document scanner a lot.
