Dropbox status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Dropbox reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Dropbox users through our website.

• Errors (60%)
• Sign in (20%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Dropbox outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nottingham	Errors	7 days ago
Guayaquil	Website Down	7 days ago
Flumet	Errors	17 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	19 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	3 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

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  Kieran 🥃🎶🐇 (@KGeorgee) reported 1 minute ago

  @datarade NET? Probably region of 45% 5k+ companies now? Not all are exits or in cash yet will be propped up a lot on Stripe dropbox doordash coinbase if we go gross probably close to 70% by now? Some bad perfromers in there of course too that will bring it down. nuts figure ngl

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  Rituraj (@RituWithAI) reported 4 minutes ago

  🚨 Someone built a tool that checks if your email is registered on 120+ sites — without the sites ever knowing someone checked. No notifications sent. No login attempts logged. No alerts triggered. Silent. Invisible. Complete. It's called Holehe. 16,800 GitHub stars. And the technique behind it is what makes it different from every other email OSINT tool. Here's how most email checkers work — and why they fail. Standard approach: try to log in with the email and a fake password. If the error says "wrong password" — the account exists. If it says "account not found" — it doesn't. Problem: every login attempt gets logged. Every failed attempt triggers security alerts on accounts with 2FA. Some platforms lock accounts after repeated failed attempts. The target knows someone was checking. Holehe never attempts a login. Instead it uses the "forgot password" flow — the password reset mechanism that every platform exposes publicly. When you enter an email on a forgot password page, the platform has to check whether that email exists in its database. It tells you: "we sent a reset link" or "no account found." Holehe reads that response. Gets the answer. Never touches the login flow. Never triggers a security alert. Never logs an access attempt against the account. The platform confirms whether the email exists. The account owner never finds out anyone asked. Here's what 120+ platforms looks like in practice. Social media: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit. Professional: LinkedIn, GitHub, Freelancer, Fiverr. Dating: Tinder, Bumble, OkCupid, Badoo, Happn. Entertainment: Spotify, Netflix, Twitch, Steam, Epic Games, Deezer. Shopping: Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Zalando, AliExpress. Services: Airbnb, Uber, PayPal, Dropbox, Adobe. And 90+ more. Every registration checked silently. Here's the use case that makes people share this. Run your own email address. See every platform that comes back positive. Then run an email address you gave to a company that claimed they'd never share it. See if it's registered on data broker sites and marketing platforms you never signed up for. See where your email has been sold or leaked to. Here's what investigators actually use it for. Journalists verifying whether a source's claimed identity matches their digital footprint. Security researchers auditing their own exposure before a public disclosure. HR teams verifying whether candidate profiles match claimed backgrounds. And the obvious: anyone who needs to know whether a specific email address belongs to a real active person — without alerting that person. Here's the wildest part. It runs async — all 120+ platforms checked simultaneously. Results in seconds. And it exports clean JSON or CSV for integration into larger OSINT pipelines. Pair it with Blackbird (which takes the confirmed email and finds linked profiles), Sherlock (which takes usernames found in those profiles and searches 400+ platforms), and Maigret (which builds the full dossier) — and you have a complete four-tool OSINT pipeline from a single email address. One command to instal. Run it on your own email first. 16.8K GitHub stars. 1.7K forks. MIT License. 100% Open Source. GitHub link in the comments 👇

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  Mikemira (@storiesbyohama) reported 8 minutes ago

  Twitter did not explode online first. It exploded in a hallway. In 2007, Twitter was still small. Most people online did not care. So the team did not try to shout at the whole internet. They went to SXSW. They put two big screens in the corridor. People at the event sent a text. That text showed up on the wall in front of everyone. One person posted. Ten people saw it. Then those ten posted too. That is how usage jumped. Not from a giant ad. From one room full of the right people. This is the growth lesson most founders miss. You do not need the whole market on day one. You need one place where your first users already stand. A campus. A conference. A WhatsApp group. A Discord. One street. One event. Dropbox did this on Hacker News. Tinder did this at campus parties. Airbnb did this when hotels ran out of rooms. If signups are slow, stop spraying ads everywhere. Find the one room. Make the product visible there. Let people watch other people use it. That is how early growth actually starts. I'm Miracle Ohama, a Growth Marketer helping B2B SaaS & tech companies find and fix revenue leaks across their funnel, I fix Growth Funnels & build real experiments that increase ARR.

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  RVCrypto (@RvCrypto) reported 9 minutes ago

  Every once in a while I have one of those moments as an investor where everything just clicks. I had that moment a couple of weeks ago with Leadpoet, $TAO subnet 71. What initially caught my attention was the team. To me, they represent what a Bittensor-first team should look like. They're deeply committed to the ecosystem, they execute quickly, and, most importantly, they seem to understand that in the end none of that matters if you don't build a product customers actually want. The product appears to be working really well. Winning the OKX product competition and attracting an inbound pilot with Dropbox are the latest two independent signals that suggest they're solving a real problem for enterprise sales teams. The opportunity they're pursuing is also enormous. Enterprise sales is a market worth billions, and if Leadpoet continues executing the way it has so far, I genuinely believe they have a realistic path to building an eight-figure revenue business next year. And the best part here is that all of that value ultimately flows back into the token. I've also spent quite a bit of time talking with Gavin over the past few weeks and months. Those conversations gave me a very similar feeling about Leadpoet to the one I had with Score when talking with Max. I don't make that comparison lightly. It's great to see Leadpoet finally getting the attention it deserves, and the recent price action reflects that. Although, if I'm being completely honest, I would have loved one more dip to accumulate a bigger position, and I know I'm not the only one thinking that.

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  Dinnu daniel (@daniel_adinnu) reported 9 minutes ago

  Ariana Grande said “I’ll see you in jail, literally” to whoever was leaking her music. On Monday, she filed the lawsuit that starts making good on it. The suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, names John Doe defendants she’s suing specifically to identify, accusing them of invasion of privacy, violating California’s Comprehensive Data Access and Fraud Act, and conversion. It describes not a single breach but a pattern stretching back years: in 2019, hackers stole a photographer’s Dropbox login and downloaded unreleased photos. In 2020, a producer’s phone was compromised, surfacing unreleased masters, demos, and recording session footage. In 2023 alone, 45 unreleased songs were stolen and leaked. In 2024, hackers built a fake email domain impersonating a photographer to trick a digital technician into handing over unreleased images. The complaint states that hundreds of similar leaks have occurred since her 2011 debut, with stolen material allegedly resold on the dark web for what it calls significant sums. The 2023 wave is what made the pattern impossible to keep quiet about. One of the leaked tracks, “Fantasize,” a collaboration with longtime producer Max Martin, spread across TikTok well before any release date. Grande addressed it publicly on the Zach Sang Show in early 2024, laughing through her own anger as she called the leakers “thieves, pirates, crooks” and joked she’d pay them more just to make the leak disappear. The lawsuit’s real target isn’t a single hacker. It’s the access itself, the accounts of the photographers, producers, and technicians who work closest to her, treated as the weak point in a system built to protect the artist directly. Grande isn’t suing to recover songs that are already out. She’s suing to find out who keeps getting in.

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  Durodiyi (@durodiyi) reported 11 minutes ago

  company’s server (like Google Drive or Dropbox), decentralized storage spreads your data across a network of computers worldwide. Platforms like IPFS and Filecoin make this possible.

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  Bruno Marsino (@BrunoMarsino) reported 13 minutes ago

  Company for AI age: - Information should flow flat - Can’t wait to have all information to make decisions - Speed and excelente in execution is crucial - You should get as much info as possible during the constraint of time given by yourself - How do we prepare a company to be totally eligible for AI? Not only text info but images - Service of the future is not about giving agents to corps to solve problems but offering the solution/service driven by AI. - Even if all information is on the web, multiple file structures, owners, formats and file storage systems (dropbox, drive, box) add friction to information and decision making

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  Matt Uribe (@MattUribe) reported 20 minutes ago

  I can't get my @bot to login to @dropbox . Anyone else having that issue. It's kind of a big deal for what I am trying to set up with my team. No matter what, it says too many attempts when I try using chrome on my bots screen. The plugin has no place to authenticate. Also I wish I could sign an email login to each bot. Seems we can only link one for the team using outlook. I guess that's why it beta. :)

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  Ishita Sethi (@Ishita__Sethi) reported 26 minutes ago

  @LoganOpSec that dropbox bit is the part that sticks. recovery without revoking access is just half a fix.

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  Jan Senderek (@jans) reported 27 minutes ago

  I started journaling at 16. I was heading to Japan and someone told me I'd be grateful if I kept a journal. So I did. And they were right. I loved that I had somewhere to put my thoughts. Somewhere to look back at if I wanted to remember something. Plus I knew I was being thoughtful about my future self. But life got bigger. University, then a career, now a family. More thoughts. More things. The journals had no chance of keeping up. So what changed was the tools. Handwritten journals to Evernote to Dropbox to Obsidian to Notion. Always thinking the next one would be the answer. It never was. Every system asks the same of you. Tag this. File that. Organize here. Review there. Do the work now so that future-you can find it later. And future-you is grateful. That part is true. But your current self carries all of it. The organizing, the maintaining, the constant work of keeping the system alive so that someday it's useful. That burden never lifts. It just accumulates. Your current self and your future self should be working together. Not one doing all the heavy lifting for the other. What if you just put your thoughts down. And trusted they'd be there when you need them. No organizing layer. No maintenance. Just the thinking. So you can truly be your current self.

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  Tom Alder (@tomaldertweets) reported 28 minutes ago

  In 2009, Dropbox founder Drew Houston took a meeting at Apple HQ thinking it was about a partnership. Steve Jobs opened with an offer to buy his company. Houston, still in his 20s, turned down 9 figures on the spot. Jobs pushed back with a warning: "You're a feature, not a product." If they wouldn't sell, Apple would build a direct competitor themselves. They wouldn't sell. Apple shipped iCloud. A phenomenally successful product, but it didn't kill Dropbox. Dropbox had quietly built the best customer acquisition loop in software history: → Give a friend an invite, you both get free storage. When Apple made the acquisition offer, Dropbox had around 2 million users. By January 2010, 4 million users. By April 2010, users were sending 2.8 million invites a month. 1 every single second. Dropbox's growth curve went ballistic after the Apple discussion: → 50m users by 2011 → 100m users by 2012 → 500m users by 2016 In 2017 they became the fastest software company in history to reach $1 billion ARR. Today: 700m+ registered users and $2.5b a year in revenue - sitting a fraction behind 850 million+ iCloud users. - 🎁 P.S. I turned Dropbox's referral playbook into a free guide - comment "Dropbox" and I'll send it to you.

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  GHOST 🌙 (@ghosstty_) reported 32 minutes ago

  OPUS 5 + HIGGSFIELD CAN TURN A 6-QUESTION FORM INTO A $35K WEBSITE. IN ONE SESSION. FOR $4 IN TOKENS. no mockup. no wireframe. no mood board. six answers from the client. that's the input. a live website is the output. here's the form. here's what each question does. and here's why agencies charge $35K for what this produces in one session. → QUESTION 1: "WHO IS THIS SITE FOR?" not "describe your target audience in 500 words." one sentence. "CFOs at mid-size SaaS companies looking to switch billing providers." this one answer sets the tone, the copy angle, the visual weight, and the CTA hierarchy. an agency runs a two-hour discovery call to get this. I get it in a google form on monday. → QUESTION 2: "WHAT SHOULD A VISITOR DO?" book a demo. buy the product. join the waitlist. one action. this kills scope creep before it starts. no "maybe we should also add a blog and a careers page." one page. one goal. one conversion. → QUESTION 3: "SHARE 3 SITES YOU LIKE AND SAY WHY." not "what's your brand aesthetic?" nobody can answer that. "I like stripe because it's clean. I like linear because of the motion. I like notion because it feels simple." three links. three reasons. that's the design system seed. → QUESTION 4: "WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT FROM COMPETITORS?" one paragraph. sometimes one sentence. this becomes the headline. the subhead. the entire above-the-fold story. a copywriter would interview the founder for an hour. this question does it in 30 seconds. → QUESTION 5: "SEND YOUR LOGO, BRAND COLOURS, AND ANY EXISTING ASSETS." a dropbox link. a google drive folder. sometimes just three hex codes and a png. this grounds the design in reality. no inventing a brand from scratch. no "let's explore some directions." → QUESTION 6: "WHEN DO YOU NEED IT LIVE?" not a timeline negotiation. a date. "next friday." done. that's when it ships. → WHAT HAPPENS NEXT friday night. six answers go into the pipeline. Opus 5 takes the answers and builds. design system. responsive layout. copy. CMS. all from the spec those six answers created. Higgsfield generates the hero media. product shots. clips. matched to the brand. saturday I review. adjust. polish. sunday morning - walkthrough link in the client's inbox. → WHY THIS WORKS because $35K was never the cost of building a website. it was the cost of figuring out what to build. discovery calls. alignment meetings. three directions. two rejected. scope changes. revision rounds. all of that is just a slow, expensive way of answering six questions. I ask the questions upfront. the client answers in 10 minutes. the machine builds from the answers. $4 in tokens. one session. same site. the full system - the form, the pipeline, the stack, and the pricing model - is in the article below. reply "FORM" and follow me - I'll send you the full playbook.

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  Danny Grinberg (@DannyGrinberg) reported 35 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport I DMd you guys but pandadoc is looking great right now ngl its an error when you have an existing dropbox sign trial and you try to upgrade to the api version it wont let you (insane)

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  Scarlett Bama 🇺🇸🅰️🐘🏈🏖️✝️ (@scarlettbama) reported 36 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Fri AM: Dropbox down? Rare if so! Will not allow PDF upload to existing folder. Upload 50x per month. Started after most recent IOS update. Using iPhone. No MacBook access right now. Pls don't sent to Community Forum.

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  Grant B. (@GrantB423) reported 37 minutes ago

  yo Sam, anyway you could dm the Dropbox link for your “ghosts’n’stuff” remix? it was taken down off every single platform @Jauzofficial

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  Petty IT Guy (@pettyITguy) reported 37 minutes ago

  Our CEO told me the Wi-Fi in his office was “basically unusable.” He said this in front of the entire executive team. So naturally it became the highest-priority infrastructure incident in the company. I tested his connection. 940 Mbps down. Perfect signal strength. Zero packet loss. I asked what specifically wasn't working. He said YouTube kept buffering during lunch. I opened his laptop. He had 71 Chrome tabs open. Three abandoned Zoom meetings were still running in the background. Dropbox was syncing 84 gigabytes. Google Drive was uploading a 4K video. He had not restarted the machine in 47 days. I could have explained this. Instead I told him our executive wireless architecture had reached end-of-life. He asked what it would cost to fix. I said I would need to scope it. He told me not to waste time and approved an $84,000 wireless modernization project before I finished the sentence. We replaced 38 access points. Installed a new wireless controller. Rewired two conference rooms. Brought in a consultant. His YouTube still buffered. I walked into his office, closed 68 Chrome tabs, killed the abandoned Zoom processes, and restarted the laptop. YouTube loaded instantly. He smiled. “Now that's more like it.” 20 minutes later he emailed my boss praising me for successfully completing the company's wireless transformation ahead of schedule. I received a spot bonus. Sometimes infrastructure modernization is just restarting a MacBook for an inept executive.

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  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 37 minutes ago

  System design question. How would you design Dropbox file sync with conflict handling? Constraints to make it real: 1) Clients are offline for days, then reconnect over flaky networks. Upload is resumable and idempotent. 2) Same file edited on 2 devices before either syncs. You need deterministic conflict detection (hash + version vector/etag?) and a UX for duplicates. 3) Renames/moves vs edits: preserve history and avoid treating rename as delete+upload. 4) Large files (2–10GB) need chunking, dedupe, and partial re-upload (content-defined chunking vs fixed). 5) Consistency: per-file ordering vs global ordering. What is the conflict scope and how do you prevent flip-flopping? 6) Server state: metadata store vs blob store, retention for old versions, and how you garbage collect orphaned chunks 7) Security: encryption at rest, per-user keys, and how sharing folders changes trust boundaries

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  Amitoj Gautam (@amitojgautam) reported 40 minutes ago

  @airtelindia @Airtel_Presence I’m facing what appears to be a serious IPv6 routing/throughput issue on my Airtel broadband. My 300 Mbps connection gives ~300 Mbps download AND upload on Speedtest. However, with IPv6 enabled, Dropbox uploads collapse to around 10–15 KB/s, and services such as Gmail and some websites also become extremely slow/unresponsive. After disabling IPv6 on the Ethernet adapter, Dropbox immediately jumped to ~39 MB/s and the affected websites started loading normally within seconds. This has been reproduced consistently, so it does not appear to be a general bandwidth or Dropbox issue. Please escalate this to the network/IPv6 team and check IPv6 routing, packet loss, MTU/PMTUD and provisioning on my connection.

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  David Simpkins (@DavidSimpkins88) reported 40 minutes ago

  URGENT!!! DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FAILS TO PROTECT THIS VETERAN's CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. MY HOME SECURITY SYSTEM AND PHONES HAVE BEEN TAKEN OVER AND I AM PREVENTED FROM SEEING ANYTHING OUTSIDE MY HOME BECAUSE OF THE CURRENT ACTIVE ATTACKS ON MY PHONES AND SECURITY SYSTEM IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF TN AND FEDERAL LAW AND NO ONE IS STOPPING THEM. LINK TO PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS: I went to get the link from Dropbox and my Dropbox appears to have been wiped out. TO THE D.C. APPELLATE CIRCUIT COURT TO REQUEST AN IMMEDIATE RULING ON A TRO TO PROTECT THE APPELLANTS. This subject is about the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals has not issued a standard Stay of Proceedings to the State of TN for their malicious prosecution. By not doing so, they have left this Veteran and his Wife open to criminal attacks by unlawful Law Enforcement of the State of TN. Further the Appellate Court has allowed non-stop violations of the Appellants home computer, cell phones, A/C Units, Security System and any all other WiFi devices. And to this day the illegal cameras placed in the Appellants home have never been removed after the Local Police Department notified this Appellant that there were hidden camera's in his home. Further, the FBI, DOJ, OIG, D.C. US Attorney's Office and especially the Appellate Court have all been notified of the targeting and 24/7 harassment by allegedly unlawful Agents of more than one of our Alphabet Agencies, to include the FBI and DISA. FBI Director Patel has to know about this situation but has done nothing to stop the corruption in the State of TN and has not protected this Veteran and his Wife. We made it clear that on the night of February 18th, 2026, that 5 people in Police Uniforms had keys to this Appellant's home and attempted to unlock the locks and enter the home both at the front door and at the Garage Pedestrian Door. They never once made any statements or comments nor explained why they were there. They did not show any warrants for arrest or search. When they knew they could not get in with out breaking things, they left approximately 15 minutes later. I had called my Wife and let her know. I am facing the same potential attacks again even though when the State of TN conceding by defaulting by not filing a response Brief. They were effectively agreeing that everything stated in the Appellant Brief was accurate and that they could not contest it. That makes all the acts committed by all Law enforcement Four-Hundred and Ninety-Seven (497) Constitutional Rights Violations are valid. Further, in order to access the Security System and the Display, they have to be within 350ft of our home. Because there is no WiFi or Bluetooth installed in the Security System or the Display. Which means they are in close proximity of this Appellants property. Three (3) Emergency Motions have been filed with the D.C. Appellate Court on three separate dates to no avail. The D.C. Appellate Circuit Court has failed to issue a TRO to Stay the TN State malicious prosecution. And left this Appellant, Veteran to suffer the vices and current active ongoing criminal activities by the State of TN against this Appellant as he types in this post. This could include a potential unlawful arrest and incarceration again because the D.C. Appellate Court has not issued a TRO or a Protective Order to Protect the Appellants. That in and of itself is a direct Constitutional Rights Violation now by the very Appellate Court who has allowed further criminal activities to promulgate even further to allow harm and injury. The corruption appears to be rampant in our US Court Systems.

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  Akshay Shinde (@ConsciousRide) reported 43 minutes ago

  @jahirsheikh8 The server never guesses. When the upload starts, it creates an upload session with a unique ID. The file is split into chunks, and the server records which chunks have already been received. After reconnecting, the client asks, “Which chunks do you already have?” The server responds with the missing offsets, and the client uploads only those. That’s how services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and S3 multipart uploads resume transfers without starting over.

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  echelon_zero (@echelon_zero) reported 46 minutes ago

  @dhh @renefaurskov Do you have a contact at dropbox that could fix the install on linux to point the dropbox to a folder other than default. Having to pause it and link to another folder after install is mentally unhealthy.

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  numaan (@numaan27) reported 46 minutes ago

  they solved this problem in panda by splitting the key space into “ranges.” each range is roughly 100 GB, so when a range grows too large, it can be split and redistributed. (btw panda is an abstraction layer over sharded mysql that dropbox built)

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  Genius Business (@GeniusBusiness_) reported 48 minutes ago

  How Dropbox Spaces was conceived Spaces didn't start as a product idea. It started as a problem Drew Houston says he and his customers were all living. "[Spaces] is part of a bigger evolution we've been on that really started with our customers and realizing that the experience of using technology at work has become incredibly fragmented and distracting." The more he looked at it, the more he saw a cruel irony: the tools built to help us were the ones breaking our concentration. "A lot of the tools we're using that you think would be helping us focus have unintentionally made it impossible to focus. And that's a problem if you need to use your brain at work, because your brain works best when you can focus." That, he decided, was the real enemy. Not a missing feature, but lost focus. He called it "the higher level problem." He could see where it came from. Work simply doesn't look the way it used to: "It's very different from 20 years ago when we got five emails a day, not 500." Twenty years ago you might have just used Office. Now you're in Office and G Suite and Slack and Zoom and Dropbox all at once. 100 tabs, everything blinking at you all day, apps that don't work together. So the framing question became: how do you fix the environment itself? "How do we evolve Dropbox into the app that makes all your other apps work better together?" The breakthrough was a shift in how Houston understood what Dropbox already was. Watching customers, he realized they didn't treat it as a place for their stuff, or as just a folder on the desktop. "It's the place you're going to work." Once he saw it that way, the design conclusions changed: "When we thought about it that way, we realized we would have made a bunch of different decisions, and realized that Dropbox is actually really well positioned to help people focus at work." Two conclusions followed. First, Spaces had to move beyond files. Teams collaborate on far more than documents: Google Docs, Airtable, Figma, Trello and there had never been one place to hold all of it. So Spaces became “an evolution of the shared folder” that “moves it beyond being a folder full of files to an intelligent team workspace for any kind of cloud content.” "You can still have your PowerPoints and PDFs, but they can be next to your Google Docs and Trello boards and whatever else you have. Give you one space, not 10." Second, and this is where the concept sharpened. Spaces had to become a workspace, not a filing cabinet. Houston traced the problem back four decades. The thing we call "the desktop" is, functionally, the operating system: "The interface is the operating system." And it had been frozen in time: "That user experience hasn't really changed... it basically looks the same as the early 80s when it was first introduced on the original Mac." It was designed for a world that no longer exists: "It's this single player static experience that was perfect for when our whole life fit on a couple of floppy discs." So the team ran a thought experiment, start from scratch, for now: "If you were to redesign this for 2019, you'd make a bunch of obvious changes." You'd still want the files and cloud content. But you'd add the things the 80s interface never had: people, activity, comments, a record of what's been happening. You'd organize around the projects you're actually working on. You'd see your calendar, get Slacked, and start a Zoom meeting all without leaving the app. That thought experiment became Spaces.

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  Ed Giansante (@edugiansante) reported 48 minutes ago

  community is not a Slack channel. I've been building communities for 15 years across Zynga, Dropbox, Wix, Persona, and my own project Edublin. And the biggest misconception I still hear is: "we launched a Slack, so we have a community." You don't. Slack, Discord, forums, Circle... those are all tools. Community is what happens when people trust each other enough to be honest. I've seen companies spend six figures on community platforms and end up with a ghost town. I've also seen a group chat of 12 people generate more value than a 10,000 person Slack. The difference is the architecture: who's in the room, how they got there, what the norms are, and whether people feel safe enough to say what they actually think. At Dropbox, we had 400 million users. The "community" wasn't a platform, it was the trust between power users who helped each other solve problems the support docs couldn't. They needed to know they were talking to someone who understood their situation. At Wix, I built an 80K partner community. The platform was secondary. What mattered was that web designers felt seen by a company that historically marketed to DIY users. The community was the signal that Wix took professionals seriously. Edublin started as a blog answering questions for Brazilian expats moving to Ireland, with no dedicated platform or app. It became the largest community of its kind because the trust was real. People showed up because they knew they'd get an honest answer. Community is trust. Community is the reason someone comes back. Every time I evaluate whether a community is working, I ask one thing: would these people show up even if the tool disappeared? If yes, you have something real. If not, you have a group chat.

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  Marcus (@marcuslayerx) reported 52 minutes ago

  way too many teams in crypto still think they're buying user acquisition when they’re really just paying the same audience to look at another project for a week i’ve spent the last few days looking at products that could actually break out of the crypto bubble and the people they need aren’t sitting on ct waiting to find them - morse is built around freelancers getting paid across borders - blackbird gets people while they’re literally sitting in the restaurant - DIMO’s real path runs through dealerships, insurers and people building with car data - Hivemapper only becomes a real business when companies pay for fresh map data, not because more drivers collect it square put the card reader in the merchant’s hand, dropbox gave people more storage for bringing someone else in, opentable became part of how restaurants took bookings, etc they showed up while the person was already trying to do the thing a lot of teams still open a spreadsheet of kols/agencies to pay before they’ve even worked out where the user is when the problem even happens

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  davidsong (@bitplane) reported 53 minutes ago

  Has @Dropbox been breached again? I just got this but it can't be me. At least I hope not. I have a randomly generated, unique password that's made in an offline password manager, I used it once on this machine when I first set it up. If I'm getting hacked the rest of you are in serious trouble.

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  Weird Darkness®️ (@WeirdDarkness) reported 54 minutes ago

  Dear @Google and @YouTube... My account has been hacked, and not only have I lost my Gmail, YouTube, etc., but I've also lost access to my Dropbox that has my full life in it, health records that I used Google to login to, etc. I signed up for Google Account Protection, but it did not protect me. Somehow, even after setting up brand new 2-factor authentication just a few weeks ago, they hacked in, changed EVERYTHING, and now my life, career, and health are at a standstill. I desperately need somebody to contact me. All options I've tried to regain access to my account have failed because everything has been disconnected.

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  Sridhar Katakam (@srikat) reported 54 minutes ago

  @YannDecoopman How about putting the vault in Dropbox? Same problem as syncing with iCloud?

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  Paul Klein IV (@pk_iv) reported 56 minutes ago

  Is MCP dead? @grinich (CEO of WorkOS) says it's better than ever and become the strongest intent signal in your funnel. @workos is building the auth, permissions, and registration layer for that world, the same enterprise plumbing it sold to Vercel and Plaid, now sold to AI companies. I sat down with Michael to talk about it in episode 4 of Navigators. His argument: your coding agent already picks your vendors, but signup forms are built to block automated traffic, so the agent stalls at the front door and waits for a human to paste in an API key. We got into: 00:00 "Stripe for enterprise features": what WorkOS actually sells 02:44 How an SSO and SAML company ended up as AI infrastructure 04:13 Why AI companies can't meander up-market the way Slack, Dropbox, and Figma did 06:54 The biggest mistake founders make: staying in the pre-PMF experimentation mindset 09:51 Why nothing works unless the management team is AI pilled first 10:47 "Claude day": pairing engineers with finance, legal, and ops once a month 13:36 auth.md, the missing front door for agents 15:26 Why registration, not tooling, is the next growth channel 16:59 Is MCP dead? The higher-intent signal hiding in MCP connections 19:35 Why SDKs are going away and coding agents write their own 23:09 "The super cycle of all super cycles": AI amplifies labor, it doesn't just disrupt it Thanks for joining me on the pod @grinich! Watch the full episode of Navigators here:

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  Nathan (@arcane_bloom) reported 58 minutes ago

  He was OpenAI's first business hire in 2018. This week, after eight years, he walked out the door. > Brad Lightcap > studies economics and history at Duke, starts as a JP Morgan investment banking analyst > moves into strategic finance at Dropbox, then joins Y Combinator's Continuity Fund > meets Sam Altman through YC, gets pulled into a tiny nonprofit called OpenAI in 2018 as its first business hire > becomes CFO, then rises to COO, helps run the company through the ChatGPT launch and its climb to the most valuable startup on earth > moved off the COO title in April 2026 into a vague "special projects" role > in August, posts on X that he's leaving after eight years to "start something new" > his exit lands one month after product chief Fidji Simo also stepped down > walks away right as OpenAI preps a monster IPO on an $852 billion valuation