Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      331·
      1 year ago

      Roughly

      “what do you mean?”

      “You cannot offer something that doesn’t exist. If Amazon decided to become a client, we’d be in a world of hurt.”

      “It’s fine none of our clients use more than a few hundred gigs”

      This was in 2018. They still offer unlimited storage. So I guess, what do I know?

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        1 year ago

        Wow that’s low. If I’m paying for unlimited I expect to at least go over 2TB since I have the space

      • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        May I ask what the company is? You don’t have to disclose it publicly if you don’t want, I have matrix setup on my profile here.

      • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        what would they do if some user just decides to use more than their “limit”? like hundreds of TB?

        • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Boot them, most likely. Or eat the cost, and look to shutter the free space/apply limits ASAP.

          Not unlike Amazon Cloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox here. There was someone on the datahoarders Reddit who famously shoved a Petabyte of Data into their unlimited cloud drive, and likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.

          • spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.

            hope they had an offline backup.