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.
Web Videos now supports auto-generated Video Transcriptions + Closed Captioning
Hey folks! My name is Derrick and I work on a team that improves the file preview and viewing experience at Dropbox. We are excited to announce two features on Dropbox.com to enhance your video viewing experience: video transcriptions and closed captioning. Here’s how to use: Simply upload your video to Dropbox and voila! Your videos will have auto-generated transcripts and closed captioning at your disposal with a click of a button. Even more so - watch videos shared from your colleagues - and copy transcribed segments to instantly quote them in a presentation. Tell me about your experience with our new features! We are all ears. Help Center Article URL:https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/transcript-closed-captions
Retrieve your content more quickly with our new advanced search operators!
Hi Dropbox community! I'm a product manager at Dropbox working on the search experience on dropbox.com. Paid users already haveaccess to advanced search features like full-text search, OCR (searching for text within images), full-text search, and image search (searching for objects within images). However, this can often return a lot of results leading to a poor experience having to wade through and find exactly what you're looking for. So, we're happy to announce that we're adding a few new operators to help you retrieve your files/folders more quickly: title:(new lead)=> See results with only the specific words in title of the file title:"new lead"=> See results with exact phrase match in title of the file. Note that quotes only work with title searches and can't be used to match on content type:image=> Filter results by a certain types like image, video, document, spreadsheet, etc. type:jpg=> Filter results by a certain types like file extension like jpg, png, docx, etc. before:2022-01-01=> Allows you to see all content before a certain date. Uses YYYY-MM-DD format. after:2022-01-01=> Allows you to see all content after a certain date. Uses YYYY-MM-DD format. lead AND new =>AND operators will show results that contain both words. lead OR new => OR operators will show results that contain either words. To use these operators, login to Dropbox.com, click on the searchbox at the top, and start typing your query.You can learn more about our operators on our help center article here: https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/search Note that there are some limitations: - This feature is Web only (for now) - Searches may return inaccurate results for contents of a file, certain images, and Paper docs if you're using the old release of Dropbox Paper. - Quotes will only work on file titles, not matches on content (for now) Try it out and let us know what you think! Thanks for your patience as we ship new features to improve your overall Dropbox experience! Rhut
Enhancements to the Upload Experience on dropbox.com
Enhancements to the Upload Experience on dropbox.com Hi! I’m Alice and my team and I have been hard at work behind the scenes to improve your uploading experience on our website, and we're thrilled to unveil some updates! Before we dive into the details, we want to give a big shoutout to all of you who shared your thoughts and experiences with us. We believe in the power of community, and it was through talking directly with you guys and reading your concerns on this forum that we were able to identify your biggest pain points. So, a heartfelt thank you for your invaluable feedback and insights! One of the major concerns we heard from many of you was the frustrating issue of your computers going to sleep during uploads, causing interruptions and delays. We understood the annoyance and inconvenience this caused (we heard that some of you would set a timer just to remind yourself to jiggle your laptop mouse!) We're thrilled to announce that we now automatically prevent your computers from dozing off during the upload process on major desktop browsers. We also wanted to address those pesky transient errors, like sudden network disconnections, which used to immediately fail your upload. We knew how frustrating it was to see your progress bar reset after a momentary hiccup. As a result, we introduced auto-retries! Our system now detects those transient errors and automatically retries the upload process, giving it multiple chances to succeed. Now if your laptop disconnects from the internet while you’re away making a strong cup of coffee, Dropbox will automatically restart your upload for you once you reconnect. In addition, our engineers also dived into our codebase to really analyze what was causing failed uploads and fixed a variety of issues at their source. However, it is impossible to prevent all uploads from failing, so in the rare occasion that an upload does fail, we wanted to give you more control. That's why we've added a ‘retry’ button that lets you retry a failed upload with just one click instead of needing to take multiple steps to relocate and restart the failed files. Last but not least, we know how frustrating it is when it’s not clear whether your upload is stuck, so we added a new mbs uploaded indicator that will give you confidence that your upload is progressing as expected. We hope you are as thrilled as we are about all these updates and hang on tight because more improvements are coming! Keep talking to us and letting us know how we can improve your Dropbox experience - your painful stories (for example about spending a week uploading a large number of files over unreliable internet!) have been the driving force behind these enhancements. We’re listening! Happy uploading, folks!Exciting times on the Dropbox Community - Live conference
We’ve got something really exciting happening on the Community next week 🤗 We’ve been looking forward to this for weeks and we’re delighted to share it with you now. On Tuesday 10th October 2023,you’ll be able to join us right here for a live screening of the keynote presentation from Work in Progress: Perspectives. You can watch all the action live from 9:00am EST 👀 When we’ll be hearing from our CEO and Co-founder Drew Houston, followed by some exciting product updates directly from our Leadership Team. If you’d like a little insight into what lies ahead for Dropbox, including the future of work 👩🏽💻 how AI is helping to transform the tools we use 🤖and the opportunities this creates, be sure to make a note in your diary now and keep an eye on the Community for more information.
Introducing:: Spaces Icon to dropbox.com
Overview We are introducing the Spaces icon to Dropbox Spaces on dropbox.com, in order to have consistent iconography across the Dropbox desktop app and the Dropbox website. The Spaces icon will be visible in the following sections of the Files tab: List view Grid View Spaces pinned to a folder overview section The Details pane if a Space is selected The Spaces icon will also be added to search results page on dropbox.com in the coming weeks Audience All Teams, all users
