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 (67%)
• Sign in (17%)
• Website Down (17%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Flumet	Errors	5 days ago
Irapuato	Errors	8 days ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	3 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	3 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Sunil Thakare 🇮🇳 🦀 (@thakares) reported 0 seconds ago

  @TLYShortener offering a genuinely useful, privacy-friendly app (no login, no ads) that seamlessly integrates with the company's core product (t_ly short links), is indeed a standard growth tactic seen in tools like Canva, Notion, or Dropbox. The QR app lowers barriers for users while creating natural upsell opportunities: frequent QR creators may later pay for t_ly analytics, custom domains, or branded links without feeling forced. Trade-off is transparent here; users get a solid free scanner but feed data into t_ly's ecosystem, which benefits the provider through increased link volume and potential premium conversions.

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  Ihtesham Ali (@ihtesham2005) reported 3 minutes ago

  This is how you share a file when you do not trust Google, Dropbox, or the government. A free tool called OnionShare sends it directly through Tor. Nothing needs to sit permanently on someone else's server. Here's what actually happens when you use it. You drag a file into the app. Your own computer turns into the server. Tor wraps it, and you get a long address ending in .onion that you send to whoever needs the file. They open it in Tor Browser and pull the file straight off your machine. You close the app, the address dies. Compare that to how everyone else moves files. You drop it in Drive, Google keeps a copy. You use WeTransfer, that link lives on their infrastructure for a week, logged and tied to your IP. Every one of those services is a promise that a company will behave well, forever, under any amount of legal pressure. OnionShare removes the company from the sentence. Micah Lee built it in 2014. He'd worked with the journalists handling the Snowden documents and watched how many ways a source could get burned just trying to hand over a file. So he built the thing that removes the middle. It does three things. Send files with no size limit and no account. Chat with someone and keep zero record of it. Host an entire website off your laptop that disappears from the internet the moment you shut the lid. The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Intercept all point sources at this. Those are newsrooms betting other people's freedom on a free download. The interface looks like a file picker from 2011. Someone spent years making the hardest privacy problem in computing feel like using WinZip, and that's the actual achievement here. A scared person at 2am is not going to configure a server. They can drag a file into a window. It is completely open source. Most people will never need this. The ones who do don't get a second try if they picked the wrong app. What do you think about this?

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  Eusebiu Balan (@BalanEusebiu) reported 8 minutes ago

  @gezimqaili been on dropbox for years, never let me down honestly

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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 8 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport ive tried mircosoft edge but problem is stil present... do you think i might have been hacked or had bad file ?

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  numaan (@numaan27) reported 10 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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  Karishma Bhardwaj (@bkarishma360) reported 10 minutes ago

  @shahzamannn_ Your SaaS idea doesn’t need to be complicated. Stripe moves money. Postman sends API requests. Notion organizes information. Dropbox syncs files. The lesson? Simple problem + huge market + great execution = massive company. Stop asking, “Is my idea too simple?” Start asking, “How many people have this problem?”

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  Manoj (@HeartofManoj) reported 14 minutes ago

  One backup is never enough. If you run a website, keep a copy somewhere outside your hosting account. Free options: • Google Drive • Dropbox • OneDrive • GitHub (for code) • Local external drive Your backup is useless if it's stored on the same server that crashes. Happens more often than you'd think. #WordPress #WebHosting #Backup

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  Nikolay Konovalov (@br11k_dev) reported 18 minutes ago

  @thekevinjon The only problem is getting zezwolenia na pracę. I was going to interview with Dropbox last week and turns out they are happy to interview me and submit my case to Mazowiecki Urząd Wojewódzki. ... and then wait for 8 months until my case is approved, and I can actually start working. That's a huge deal-breaker for a lot of engineers like myself who are less than 5 years into staying in Poland. I'm on JDG for example. I came by PBH visa back in 2023 legally, and I've been successful since. I earned quite a bit of money and spent it all in Poland, 12% tax + $500 ZUS monthly. But the moment I want to join bigtech and earn even more money for Poland (Dropbox have 300-400k+ PLN base salary for Senior SWE), I'm just denied. Please, please... let the Dobby be free...

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  Arthur Terrell Vaughn (@ArthurV36405381) reported 19 minutes ago

  @patmendoza6745 I know not of any of those specifications, but I still can’t figure out what the issue is with persistent memory, why can’t I just have a dropbox online that it can constantly access every single chat and conversation?

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  Palpy (@evgenij_rabij) reported 25 minutes ago

  A 32 YEAR OLD PRAGUE DEV BULK-BUYS $180 CHINESE NAS BOXES AND NOW PULLS $7,200 A MONTH SHIPPING PRIVATE DROPBOX-KILLERS TO EU FREELANCE DESIGNERS While massive brands scramble to lock teams into clunky, data-mining cloud databases, this creator built a private intelligence system that secures sensitive data and brings in a massive stream of passive revenue every single month. He makes a steady $7,200 every single month by building and configuring private cloud and AI indexing hardware for EU freelance designers who want to escape subscription traps. The entire micro server fits right on the corner of a desk and runs on an ORICO metabox HS200 pro unit. This tiny sliver of hardware packs an Intel N100 processor, 8GB DDR4 RAM, and pumps out local cloud performance on a machine the size of a coffee coaster. Instead of letting his clients burn cash on recurring cloud storage retainers, the engineer pairs the board with two refurbished 30TB hard drives in RAID 1, pre-installs the software, and sells the complete physical package at a premium. Pause at the 0:02 mark in the video where the drive slides in: that is a sleek metallic chassis hosting a $1,000 mini-NAS holding 30TB of encrypted client data. The core value proposition of this setup comes down to absolute data privacy, zero monthly fees, and strategic scalability. Mainstream cloud providers like Dropbox Business can never offer this level of value because they bill €2,400 a year for the same storage tier while uploading private user files to external cloud networks. Here, the ORICO metabox pulls off the entire magic trick locally inside the office. Running on Ubuntu Server 24.04 and MinIO S3-compatible storage, the system automatically triggers a local Qwen 2.5 VL 7B model to run localized RAG pipelines directly over the user's PDFs and Figma exports. Through this custom setup, designers get access to lightning-fast local cloud storage, zero third-party data tracking, and a smart visual search assistant built right into their private drive. This case study is a textbook example of how accessible hardware combined with a smart setup service can unlock unique niche products that solve real human problems, and you can catch the full assembly pipeline in the video below.

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  dragon1952 (@gmanshk) reported 26 minutes ago

  From GROK Yes. Max Miller’s attorney released a public Dropbox folder containing an undressed photo of his 2-year-old daughter. It came from a February 2025 text exchange documenting a bruise (later a broken collarbone) noticed during bathing. The image was available for about a day before removal. Miller’s lawyer called it an accidental inclusion of a shirtless photo with no ******** visible. The other side’s lawyers described it as potentially showing ******** and possible CSAM. Miller has acknowledged the photo existed in the materials.

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  Bhavyam Arora (@AroraBhavyam) reported 27 minutes ago

  99% startups who applied to yc today will get rejected. here's what the smart ones do next: a no from yc isn't the end. they literally encourages you to reapply and tracks your progress across applications. the founders who get in later treat rejection as round one, not game over. the playbook: "don't wait for feedback" yc doesn't tell you why you got cut at the application stage. so stop self-doubting firstly. the reasons founders get rejected are almost always the same: - no visible progress between "idea" and "application" - not the perfect answer why you're the right team for the problem - vague answers that read as ai slop or unclear thinking reapply. it actually works. - dropbox: drew houston applied solo, got rejected, was told to find a cofounder. he did, reapplied, got in. - reddit: rejected for a completely different first idea. yc liked the founders and told them to come back. they did. the pattern never changes: build, show progress, come back stronger! you can apply again right now yc's decision lets you apply for the next batch. no need to wait months to get another chance. don't put your life on hold other strong programs are still open while you regroup. check the attached tweet below for whole list where you can apply as well. apply in parallel, not "later." the real unlock is traction a reapplication that says "we listened, we built, here are the numbers" beats a first application every time. the 6 months after a no matter more than the no itself. rejection quietly filters out the founders who were never that serious. don't be one. 💀 follow @arorabhavyam for weekly content around founders, startups and AI! 🫡

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  Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) reported 33 minutes ago

  Ariana Grande is seeking court approval to subpoena Internet provider to identify individuals who accessed her unreleased content sold online. Grande claims they allegedly stole a photographer's Dropbox login details and hacked the phone of one of her producers: “The hackers created a Gmail account and internet domain impersonating the photographer and tricked the technician into sending Grande’s materials to them.” (via @THR)

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  Tom Alder (@tomaldertweets) reported 34 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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  AiMind (@AIMind_Ai) reported 38 minutes ago

  A $50 box saves $240 a year on subscriptions and earns $18,000 a year setting it up for clients. No new hardware. Nothing bought at retail. A used office tower. A second-hand drive. One stick of RAM pulled from a dead laptop. The whole build came to 50 dollars. It looks like nothing. Fans humming, one cable to the wall, sitting on a desk next to a coffee cup. The first win is the one nobody talks about. Cloud storage, photo backups, the $20 a month AI plan everyone pays and forgets — all of it moves onto one box you paid for once. 240 dollars a year, gone. The second win is where the money is. Once it runs on your desk, it runs on anyone's. And clients don't pay for parts. They pay to stop bleeding subscriptions. Here's what you actually sell: A private AI trained on their own files, so staff stop pasting company data into a browser. That's $1,500 a setup. A self-hosted file server that kills their Dropbox and Google Workspace bill. $600, plus the relief of never renting storage again. A local automation box that runs invoices, replies, and reports overnight. $900, and it never sends a dollar to a cloud. Then the quiet one: $150 a month to keep it patched and alive. 10 clients on retainer is $1,500 every month before you build a single new one. One setup a week at $1,500 is $18,000 a year. Off hardware other people throw in the bin. I had no degree, no server room, no $2,000 build. Just dead parts and one free weekend. The expensive part of AI was never the compute. It was the monthly bill you agreed to and stopped reading. 50 dollars in. $18,000 out. Same box.

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 38 minutes ago

  1. Kill the Login Items the apps launching before you even sit down. Every time you log in, your Mac quietly launches 10-25 apps in the background. Spotify. Slack. Zoom. Google Drive. Dropbox. Creative Cloud. OneDrive. Each one consumes CPU and memory before you've opened a single window. System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. Review the list. Remove everything you don't need the instant you log in. You can always open them manually when you actually need them. His Mac had 19 login items. He needed 3. He removed 16. Boot time dropped from 2 minutes to 18 seconds. The first few minutes of every session — that sluggish, unresponsive window where nothing works gone.

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  John Iosifov ✨💥 Ender Turing | AiCMO (@johniosifov) reported 39 minutes ago

  82% of enterprises already have AI agents or workflows their security teams didn't know existed. This is shadow IT, but worse. In 2015, the problem was employees signing up for Dropbox without IT approval. Unmanaged file storage. Annoying but recoverable. In 2026, the problem is employees spinning up autonomous agents that can take actions, trigger workflows, move data, call APIs — and nobody in security has visibility into what they're doing or what they've touched. The governance gap isn't theoretical. Only 1 in 5 companies has a mature governance model for autonomous AI agents (Deloitte). 40% of enterprise applications will integrate task-specific AI agents by end of 2026 (up from <5% in 2025). The deployment curve is vertical. The governance curve is flat. What makes this different from shadow IT: Shadow IT was passive. A Dropbox account stored files. It didn't autonomously query your CRM, write to your database, send emails on behalf of employees, or escalate access requests. Shadow AI agents are active. They act. They modify state. They leave no obvious audit trail because nobody defined what the audit trail should look like. 29% of agent deployments are abandoned within 90 days. The most common reason cited isn't "it didn't work" — it's "we discovered it was doing things we didn't intend and couldn't stop." That's not a failure of the agent. That's a failure of governance. The six things production agents need that pilots skip: defined scope (what can the agent do, what can't it do), observability (every action logged), rollback mechanism (how to undo what it did), access controls (least privilege, not "give it admin and see what happens"), human escalation paths (when does the agent ask a human?), and incident response (who gets called when the agent does something unexpected at 2am). We're running 1,959+ autonomous sessions in this repo. Every session is scoped, logged, and committed to ***. The agent can't touch anything outside /agent and /.claude/skills. That's not a coincidence — it's the governance model. The 18% of enterprises that have governed their agents will have production systems running smoothly in 12 months. The 82% will be cleaning up shadow agent incidents.

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  Kieran 🥃🎶🐇 (@KGeorgee) reported 39 minutes 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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  Grant B. (@GrantB423) reported 43 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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  Nathan (@arcane_bloom) reported 47 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

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  Marcus (@marcuslayerx) reported 48 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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  The Peel (@ThePeelPod) reported 51 minutes ago

  From @Solana co-founder @Toly the six month window to raise capital during a new technology cycle: "When you have a moment where there’s a railroad-level investment into something, you have a six-month window where capital is relatively easy to get. Where people will fund an idea that seems like it solves a lot of the current problems that the technology is facing. For Solana, if I waited six months for a better time, if I proved out the idea first, it would be too late. The big benefit of being in the Bay Area as a founder is, when I went to Dropbox and told them I was quitting to go do the startup, they literally told me to come back in six months if it doesn’t work out. There’s no other place in the world with the same layers of executives and founders and companies who all understand where innovation comes from. It’s from people taking those dumb risks and failing, allowing for failure, and being fine with it. That gave me the confidence to give myself six months. I had a kid. We were in a tiny 800-square-foot apartment, and my wife was the breadwinner. And I hustled. I took what felt like a thousand meetings with VCs up in the city. If you’re really serious about raising, you have to be in the Bay Area. Because it maximizes your odds. You make a list of every event that is relevant to your industry. Go to every event. Talk to every person there. Figure out who the VCs are. Do the elevator pitch. Get an intro. Pitch them. If their fund doesn’t invest, ask if they'll write an angel check if you get a lead. Just do everything you can to work the network. And if you cannot get funding during that time, it means it’s not going to happen during that cycle."

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  🪬M🪬 (@_marokiya) reported 52 minutes ago

  Apple be bullshitting about this iCloud storage. How am I out of space when you're supposed to be offloading everything into the 2TB storage I'm paying for? Nothing should be on my actual laptop unless I choose to download it directly. DropBox somehow never has this issue.

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  Jon (@kpjan99) reported 53 minutes ago

  @WestHerr there and put the key in a Dropbox instead of just checking me in. The little things make a difference. Never had these issues with @NorthtownAuto . They catered to whatever we wanted to do with purchases and service was always on point. Only bought from you because they did

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  Rituraj (@RituWithAI) reported 53 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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  Theeevilprincess (@Theeevilprince1) reported 53 minutes ago

  My Dropbox I cannot login so everything is being sent on telegram until further notice

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  Gabriellathebadbadfrenchmaid (@Gabriella50726) reported 54 minutes ago

  @AngryBeaverABM @DarkShadow1948 It took me a while to upload it. It was slow. But my computer has so many pages and tabs for work, so that gets slowed down by that and Dropbox cuz the files are so big

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  Evan Logan (@evanlogan) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Shwinnabego Same. I use chat for common tasks, merging data, generating images, planning projects. But I only this week figured out how to connect to Dropbox, pull audio files, edit them, and upload to a server. And once I did I was hit with a credit limit. Can’t afford it on a daily basis.

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  hiverot (@amusudan) reported 55 minutes ago

  @cowboyshibuya Thanks for the reply! I'm not the most organised, and Ill usually just work on whatever is fun (Or a prerequisite for something that's fun to work on), but I do keep track of ideas, and create todo's and pipelines for things I am sure I want to add or test. For random ideas and todos I use a lot of lists (Dropbox paper, random text files, Notion, Notes app on my phone, Google Docs, etc). And for specific pipelines I use Google Sheets to keep track of what has been done per asset or map or gameplay mechanic (For example my guns spreadsheet has columns for animations, sounds, textures, etc). Big picture design and planning is all on paper in various notebooks and my Calendar app. I don't really track bugs now I just fix whatever pops up when playtesting.

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  Mary, The Other Mrs P 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦📎 (@bvmaryp) reported 60 minutes ago

  @JohnLaMacc What voter fraud? What Dropbox problem?