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.