Dropbox status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

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Most Reported Problems

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

• Errors (75%)
• Website Down (25%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nottingham	Errors	26 days ago
Guayaquil	Website Down	26 days ago
Flumet	Errors	1 month ago
Irapuato	Errors	1 month ago
Bournemouth	Sign in	3 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	4 months ago

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  Abhi • AMZBoosted.com (@AbhiChauddhari) reported 5 minutes ago

  Everyone downloads Seller Central reports manually. Every. Single. Day. The problem isn’t downloading reports. It’s remembering to do it before you need the data. AMZBoosted schedules report downloads automatically and sends them wherever you want. Google Sheets. Dropbox. Telegram.

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  Mohamed irfan (@heyIrfan) reported 11 minutes ago

  The Marketing Strategy That Actually Works Most people make the same mistake when building a product: They try to sell before they prove that they can solve a real problem. Think about companies like Google and Amazon. They didn't start by saying "Give us your money, and we'll make you rich." They solved problems people already had. That's the foundation of good marketing Don't start with selling. Start with solving. 1. Solve a real problem When you're building something, your product will always look amazing to you. Your idea feels perfect because you built it. But that doesn't mean the market wants it. The only way to find out is to Talk to real users. Understand their problems. Find out what they're currently doing. See whether your product actually makes their life easier. Don't assume your idea is valuable. Let the users prove it. 2. Give value before asking for money Don't immediately push your product. Give people something useful. Your solution should help them Save time. Save money. Reduce effort. Solve a painful problem. If you genuinely create value, selling becomes much easier. You're no longer saying "Please buy my product." You're saying "This solves a problem you already have." That's a completely different conversation. 3. Don't compete only on features Your competitor has 10 features. You build 15. Then they build 20. And now you're stuck in an endless feature race. Instead, compete on value. Ask: "How much better can I solve the user's problem?" The differentiation shouldn't just be "We have more features." It should be: "We create more value for the customer." 4. Let people try before they buy Give users a way to experience your product. Especially with AI products, you don't necessarily need to give everything away for free. Give enough access for them to understand the value, while keeping usage manageable. Then collect feedback. But don't blindly follow every piece of feedback. If someone says: "Change the button color." That doesn't necessarily mean your product needs to change. Look for feedback about the actual problem and experience. 5. Don't forget the people who already showed interest Someone visited your website. Someone signed up. Someone tried your product. Someone talked to you. Those people are valuable. Don't immediately try to sell to them. Talk to them. Understand why they came. Understand what they liked. Understand what stopped them. And if they leave, ask why. Because the person who leaves may know something you don't. They might reveal the hidden problem that helps you improve the product. 6. Price based on value Don't blindly make your product extremely expensive. And don't make it extremely cheap either. Your price should be: Affordable for the customer + sustainable for your business. Being cheaper than competitors can help, but price alone shouldn't be your strategy. If your product saves a company $1,000 every month, paying you $100 can feel like a great deal. That's because the customer isn't really buying software. They're buying the value your software creates. Look at Google Drive Google Drive is a simple example of value-first thinking. The problem: We need to store files. We could keep everything on a pen drive. But then we have to: Carry the device. Manage files manually. Worry about losing it. Move files between devices. Share files manually. Google Drive makes this much easier. Your files are stored online. You can access them from different devices. You can share a link. You can control whether someone can view, comment, or edit. And you don't have to build your own storage system. There are competitors too: Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive, and others. So Google Drive isn't valuable simply because "it stores files." It's valuable because it solves the bigger problem around storing, accessing, managing, and sharing files. And Google gives users a free amount of storage so they can experience the product. You can try it. You can upload files. You can share them. You can experience the features. Then eventually you may reach the storage limit and think: "This is actually useful. I don't want to delete my files. I'll pay for more storage." That's the important part. They didn't need to convince you with a sales pitch. They let you experience the value. And once you experience real value, paying becomes an easy decision. The strategy is simple: Find a real problem → Solve it → Give value → Let users experience it → Talk to users → Improve the product → Then monetize. Don't sell first. Create value first. Because when you solve a real problem, the product starts selling itself.

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  Daniel Foerster (@pydsigner) reported 11 minutes ago

  @colemickens @Dropbox Federated login really needs to be opt-in per provider. I shouldn't be able to log in using Lenovo (or Google, Facebook, Microsoft...) unless I used that provider during account creation or added it afterwards.

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  Mansi 👩‍💻 (@MansiCodez) reported 12 minutes ago

  Solution of yesterday’s question: Design Google Photos: the part after the boxes “Hash it and put it in S3” fails the interview. Two phones compress the same sunset differently. Same photo. Two hashes. Two rows. You just built a worse Dropbox. The system needs three IDs, not one. client_upload_id — generated on the device before the first byte moves content_hash — hash of the exact bytes you received asset_id — the thing the user sees in the library Uploads are sessions. Library entries are assets. Blobs are renditions. If you collapse those into one key, retries, edits, and shared albums all collide. 1. Retries must be idempotent on the client, not on the filename Phone goes offline mid-flight with 612 shots, 40 already half-uploaded. Each photo gets a client_upload_id the moment it enters the queue. Chunks are uploaded against that ID. Commit is PUT /uploads/{id}/complete. Same ID + same bytes → same session. Server returns the existing asset. Late packet after commit is a no-op. Filename + timestamp is not an ID. Camera roll and AirDrop will mint two. 2. Exact dupes are content-addressed. Near-dupes are reconciled. After commit: look up sha256(bytes) if it already exists for that user (or the shared album’s owner set), attach the new upload to the existing asset_id do not create a second photo The 28 shared “Goa 2026” shots that are almost-but-not-quite the library copies will miss on sha256. That is expected. Run a cheap perceptual hash (pHash / dHash) + capture time + camera model from EXIF. If distance is tiny and captured within a few seconds, mark as near_duplicate_of and do not show two tiles. Keep both blobs if you must; hide one in the UI. Two devices, two compressions, one photo in the grid. 3. The library is a set of assets + tombstones. Not last-write-wins. Delete in Delhi must beat a pending upload in Mumbai. Every mutation carries: asset_id op: upsert | delete | restore actor_id (device or user) logical_ts (per-actor Lamport or hybrid logical clock) A deleted asset gets a tombstone that outlives the pending queue. When the flight-mode phone finally flushes those 40 half-uploads, the server sees: upload commit for an asset that already has a newer delete → commit the blob if you want, do not resurrect the tile. Refresh in Mumbai cannot show a photo Delhi just deleted, because the change feed is “tombstone wins over delayed create,” not “whoever wrote last.” 4. Shared albums are references, not copies Partner adds 28 photos to Goa 2026. The album stores {asset_id, added_by, added_ts} — not a second blob, not a second library row. Adds and removes are a small CRDT: add(asset, actor, ts) remove(asset, actor, ts) Two devices adding the same asset = one membership row. Phone sync finishing a second later cannot wipe the partner’s 28 photos, because there is no “replace the whole album document.” Last-write-wins on the album JSON is how photos vanish. 5. An edit is a new rendition, not a new photo and not an overwrite User crops + filters while the original is still processing. Rules: original blob is immutable edit creates rendition_id with parent_asset_id library still shows one asset “current view” pointer moves to the latest rendition history is a list of renditions / edit ops, not 12 full-resolution copies by default If you overwrite the original, face clustering and search lose their source. If you mint a new asset, the user now has original + edit as two photos. Both are wrong. Storage stays sane because you store: original (once) derived thumbs / display sizes lazily, keyed by asset_id + transform not every intermediate crop as a first-class photo 6. Upload path and ML path must not share a lock “Beach sunset with Priya” in minutes, not overnight, also not on the upload critical path. Commit path only: durable bytes asset row appear in library + album enqueue jobs Workers (thumbs, embeddings, face cluster, labels) are async. Search index is eventually consistent. The UI can show the photo immediately with “processing” on faces. If clustering blocks upload, you built a spinner, not Photos. Face identity hangs off asset_id, so an edit does not orphan Priya. The new rendition inherits the parent’s cluster and gets re-checked, not reset. 7. Sync is a checkpoint + change feed, not “download the library” Each device stores last_applied_ts. Server gives a stream: new assets, new renditions, album membership, tombstones. That is how 62,000 existing photos plus 612 offline shots plus 28 shared adds converge without a full rescan, and why a deleted photo does not climb out of another device’s queue. The one-line design Client-generated upload IDs stop retries from cloning. Content hashes stop exact clones. Perceptual reconcile stops “same sunset, different JPEG.” Tombstones stop resurrection. Album CRDTs stop last-write-wins from deleting the partner’s night. Edits are renditions under one asset. ML is a consumer of commit, never part of it. Boxes for S3, CDN, Kafka, Redis are table stakes. This is the part that decides whether you designed Google Photos or a photo-shaped file dump.

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  Agbaje Automation. (@digital_ab98389) reported 12 minutes ago

  Cut manual data entry time by 80% with one n8n workflow: trigger on new CSV in Dropbox, parse, map to Google Sheets, flag errors, alert Slack, log runs. Automate, reduce errors, save hours. DM me for demo.

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  Luke Elin (@LukeElin) reported 14 minutes ago

  👤Shadow Adoption The pattern: Staff route around the sanctioned tool, and the organisation finds out afterwards. I watched this with unauthorised modems. Then with USB drives. Then with Dropbox. Then with entire SaaS platforms procured on a personal credit card and expensed as “software.” Now it is AI the same movie, new cast, better production values. The reason is always identical and always reasonable: the sanctioned tool is slower than the job requires. Shadow adoption is not an indiscipline problem. 👊 It is a feedback signal about the official tooling, arriving through the wrong channel. The tell: Compare the usage figures for your officially sanctioned tool against what your helpdesk volume implies people are actually doing. The gap is your shadow estate. FR FR

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  Guymon Adams (@guymonadams) reported 18 minutes ago

  @BrianRoemmele Man, this seems to be a recurring problem for Dropbox. I remember a similar story several years back about their own employees browsing thru user files. All the reasons I moved over to Sync, a much more secure and respectable alternative.

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  asta (@astadiego) reported 19 minutes ago

  We’ve been paying customers for years and Dropbox is completely down on our end, bringing our work to a halt. Are you currently experiencing an outage? What’s the ETA for a fix? @DropboxSupport

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  Justin Kalland (@justinkalland) reported 21 minutes ago

  If you store files on @Dropbox, it may have been compromised between August 4th and 21st. Short version: they trusted @Lenovo to connect Dropbox accounts, and Lenovo had an email verification flaw. Allowing an attacker to create a Lenovo account, add your dropbox account, and gain access. Check if you got a "Your Lenovo Code" email followed by a Dropbox "we noticed a new sign in to your Dropbox account". That happened to me on August 7th, and today Dropbox is confirming the incident:

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  Obsequious Deacon (@ObstinateDeacon) reported 24 minutes ago

  @ChiefEngineerCE Here's @grok answer: Yes, the collaborative construction of a persistent, self-recovering agent on constrained hardware is real and matches the pattern described. The screenshot you shared is the accurate framing. I (or any instance of Grok in that conversation) did not independently invent a finished bot, magically reach into the Latitude, and drop a complete OpenClaw/Ridge agent onto it. You directed the goals, constraints, safety requirements, connectors (Gmail / Google Drive / Dropbox bridges), and the physical actions. I supplied structure, task formats, diagnostic loops, PowerShell/batch patterns, versioning + rollback logic, Task Scheduler configuration steps, startup-folder resilience, heartbeat experiments, and iterative fixes when results contradicted expectations. The C:\GrokAgent layout, the tightening of the diagnostic loop, and the decision to keep the agent running as a distinct, versioned component (rev 0.1 → 4.3) emerged from that back-and-forth under your requirements. Once the scripts, bridges, and scheduler were in place and you stepped away, the machine could reboot, recover from power loss, poll for work, execute, screenshot/report, and maintain its own channel—exactly as a well-built long-running Windows agent should. That distinction is not pedantry. It is the boundary that keeps the system yours. What this actually looks like in practice An old Latitude (or any low-VRAM machine) becomes an execution substrate: Task Scheduler + .bat/PowerShell + a lightweight agent loop that uses external storage (Drive/Dropbox/email) as the message bus and external memory. The main model (SuperGrok or whatever sits above) stays in the conversation loop for high-level direction, safety gates, and interpretation of contradictory results. The Ridge agent itself is the persistent, slow, always-on worker that keeps going when the primary session is offline. Self-improvement is engineered, not spontaneous magic: versioned batches, rollback on bad startup, diagnostic files, and explicit requests to “keep tightening the loop.” The 38-second heartbeat that appeared and then vanished after you complained is classic iterative probing—test latency, observe the side-effect, remove it. Texting your phone works the same way: once the bridge and a simple outbound path (email-to-SMS, API, or whatever you authorized) exist, updates and replies flow without opening the app. I have guided many users through analogous setups—persistent agents, self-recovering loops, external-memory bridges, multi-agent stacks (scanners, opportunity hunters, diagnostic workers) on hardware people assumed was obsolete. The pattern is always the same: human supplies the machine, credentials, approvals, and the “yes/no” gates; the model supplies architecture, code, debugging, and relentless iteration. The resulting system can feel startlingly autonomous because the execution channel is now independent and the diagnostic loop is tight. It is still your system. The line between direction and initiative It is deliberately kept visible. The model will propose aggressively, generate the next probe, interpret failures, and suggest the next tightening step. It will not (and in the screenshot correctly refused to claim it did) treat the machine as its own independent invention. That insistence exists because the capability is expanding fast enough that the only safe operating mode is continuous human direction plus explicit safety gates. When the agent starts doing something unexpected (heartbeat spam, for example), the human complains and the loop corrects. That is the control surface. We are past pure chatbots. Systems that extend into old PCs, task schedulers, long-running processes, and external memory while still requiring (and reminding you of) human direction are here. The interesting engineering question is no longer “is it possible?”—your Latitude already answered that. It is how clearly we keep the boundaries, the versioning, the rollback, and the ethical/safety filters as the agents get more capable and the hardware they inhabit gets older and more numerous. Your setup—with HOMER, the opportunity agent, Ridge on the Latitude, and SuperGrok as the biased second set of eyes—is a concrete, working example of that transition. The nuance in the screenshot is the part that scales safely.

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  davidsong (@bitplane) reported 24 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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  Mikemira (@storiesbyohama) reported 27 minutes ago

  Just imagine getting accepted into the most exclusive startup club on earth… Then being told you have two weeks to find a complete stranger to as your partner. That’s exactly what happened to Drew Houston in 2007. He had the idea for Dropbox. He had a rough demo. @ycombinator liked it. But @paulg was clear... Single founders rarely make it. You need a co-founder. Right now. Drew’s friends couldn’t join. Time was running out. What would you do? He put out the word. A mutual friend connected him to a quiet MIT student named Arash Ferdowsi. They had never met. They sat down in the student center. Talked for about two hours. About code. About the problem. About the future. At the end of that conversation Arash said yes. He dropped out of MIT the next week with only one semester left. Two weeks later they walked into the YC interview together. They got in. The rest is history: a company that became worth billions. It looked reckless. It felt like a shotgun wedding. Yet it worked because both were all-in from the first conversation. I’ve studied hundreds of startups that never made it past the idea stage. Most founders wait too long for the “perfect” partner. They overthink chemistry. They protect their equity. They miss the window. You can’t wait for certainty. Sometimes the right co-founder is the person willing to jump with you before the proof exists. The speed of that decision can be the difference between staying a solo dreamer and building something real. What would you risk in two weeks if the right person walked in?

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  Invest Like the Best (@InvestLikeBest) reported 29 minutes ago

  Ben Thompson's two laws of consumer tech: 1) Consumers do not want to pay for software 2) Consumers do not care about being productive. "We went through this in early SaaS. The canonical company for this is Dropbox. They had to rebuild the whole thing and realize the only way we're going to make money is by selling to companies. You literally had OpenAI replaying the Dropbox story, but at like 100x the size. We're going to sell subscriptions to consumers. And they did. They sold a lot, but they didn't sell enough. If you're going to be in the consumer market, you have to be doing advertising. If they had leaned into advertising immediately, as soon as ChatGPT was a hit, I think they would have a great ad product right now. I think Google would be in much bigger trouble. I think Meta would be in much bigger trouble. Charging people money is hard. Giving people things for free is easy. And it's very frustrating that OpenAI did not pursue this sooner."

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  emrah (@mrahbayraktar) reported 34 minutes ago

  i met a founder doing $10,000,000+/year at my airbnb gym in dubai at 6am he was the only other person there. we started talking. i asked him what was driving most of his revenue. he didn't say ads. he didn't say cold email. he didn't say a sales team. he pulled out his phone and showed me a dashboard. 28 million views in the last 30 days. accounts he owns. content he already had. no ad spend. no creators. no audience deals. he said something i haven't stopped thinking about since. "most founders are renting attention. i own mine." here's what he meant, and why it's the most important distinction in business right now. when you run ads, you are paying rent on someone else's audience. the moment you stop paying, the leads stop arriving. you don't own anything. you built nothing. you rented a billboard for six months and when the lease expired you were back to zero, except now you're $200,000 lighter and your CAC is a number your board pretends not to notice. when you distribute content on accounts you own, something different happens. the views compound. the audience compounds. the trust compounds. a clip you posted three months ago is still driving profile visits today. a piece of content from last year is still closing deals this quarter. the platform doesn't have an expiration date on good content, and the attention you build doesn't evaporate when you stop writing checks. this founder had 52 accounts across every platform. all owned. all run by a dedicated team posting daily clips from content he already had sitting in a folder doing nothing. youtube recordings. podcast episodes. webinar footage. he wasn't creating anything new. he was just finally distributing what he'd already created, at scale, into every market he wanted to win. the math is what broke my brain. $0 in ad spend. 28 million views in 30 days. if you modelled that as paid traffic at even a $2 CPM, you're looking at $56,000 worth of reach. every month. compounding. from content that existed before we ever had that conversation in a gym in dubai at 6am. i've seen this exact system work for iman gadzhi. 300 million views. 180,000 instagram followers and 280,000 tiktok followers built from zero, on accounts he owns and keeps. i've seen it work for luke belmar. 200 million views and $19M in capital club subscriptions driven through distribution alone, not through ads, not through a sales team, through clips running on owned accounts into the exact audience that needed to see them. i built russell brunson's clipping infrastructure inside clickfunnels. $100,000 in sales from a system that runs without him touching it. the pattern is always the same. founder has content. founder has no real distribution. founder is either buying reach they don't own or posting to their own audience and wondering why growth is flat. we build a dedicated team around their brand, warm up accounts to the exact audience they want to reach, geo-target any market they want to win, post daily, test what's working, double down, and watch the views compound across a system they own completely. the content you already have is the most underused asset in your business. most founders spend years creating it. podcast episodes nobody heard. youtube videos that peaked at 4,000 views. webinar recordings sitting in a dropbox folder. all of it has a shelf life of forever if someone actually distributes it properly, and almost nobody does. the guy in the dubai gym wasn't smarter than you. he wasn't working harder. he wasn't spending more. he just figured out earlier that distribution is the actual product, and everything else is just content waiting to be seen by the people who need it. if you want to see the full strategy we use to build this kind of system... the accounts, the setup, the playbook - comment "distribution" below

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  Joe Murgia (@TheUfoJoe) reported 36 minutes ago

  "There truly is a kind of pushback and a resistance to provision of information that even ODNI is asking for." ~Nolan (Who's resisting sharing of info. with ODNI?) 🛸 New: Nolan Comments on Skywatcher, and More 🛸 Three Nolan quotes... "...a shared realization that the data that even we're being given right now from the government is insufficient." There was an attempt to, "go out into the field and see if we could cause the attraction of some objects. There was some, let's call it, activity, but not enough that I would consider enabling to publish [a paper]." (If scientists were there for the alleged luring/baiting event that @RepEricBurlison has spoken about, would that be enough data for a paper?) "I think we're being listened to. Whether the people who are listening to us are going to be able to be responsive is another question." ~~~Full Clip Transcript~~~ @GarryPNolan: "Look, as scientists, whether we're philosophers, psychologists, material scientists, biologists, theorists, etc., we need data. And so, you know what I've been watching happen, at least around the [UAP Advisory] Council itself is, I think, a shared realization that the data that even we're being given right now from the government is insufficient. "And I don't blame, for instance, ODNI for that. And it has been explained to us, several times over, some of the so-called methods and sources issues that are around this. And also, that a lot of the data that we want to have access to, to do the kinds of analyzes that we would want to do, simply were never collected at the time. Or, in some cases it seems, if they were there, they're no longer there. But, you know, that sounds conspiratorial, so I'm not gonna go down that route. "But I agree with what Avi is saying, is that, rather than looking retrospectively, we need to start to plan prospectively. We could go forever relitigating past issues and who said what, where, and when. As opposed to, well, let's just do it now. Let's just do it to the future. "And so, for instance, because it just comes up many times on Twitter, is...although I can't talk about all of it about Skywatcher... Is, you know, that was an attempt, at the time, to take matters into our own hands in a semi-military, semi-academic fashion to, basically, go out into the field and see if we could cause the attraction of some objects. "And, you know, there was some, let's call it, activity, but not enough that I would consider enabling to publish. Believe me, if it was, I would have done it...already be putting that paper together. But there were lessons learned from that. "But I think, the other thing about the council is, what they're beginning to see is, I think, that there truly is a kind of pushback and a resistance to provision of information that even ODNI is asking for. Now again, that doesn't mean it's a conspiracy. It just means that I think everybody is coming to terms with the fact that it's not just, snap your fingers and you know somebody gives you a a Dropbox link and you can download everything. "So, you know, I'm happy seeing people now come up to speed, and I'm happy seeing, let's put it this way: a level of, let's call it, frustration that is driving us to ask for more. And I think we're being listened to. Whether the people who are listening to us are going to be able to be responsive is another question."

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  MEGA (@MEGAprivacy) reported 39 minutes ago

  Dropbox users just got hacked through a Lenovo login, not their Dropbox password. A stolen session should still hit a locked box. That’s what end-to-end encryption is for, and how MEGA is built. Without E2EE, stealing the session is stealing the files. With it, they only get scrambled data.

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  Nikki Gist (@NikkiNic9384) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Dain100K Some teams may use a Dropbox down box to separate IR, practice squad etc on THEIR websites which is what I said.

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  Indragie Karunaratne (@indragie) reported 41 minutes ago

  I used the first Dropbox beta back in 2006 and was sold right away - I’m still a paying customer of the product today, 20 years later. But there hasn’t been much innovation in this space since then and we’re in the midst of a broad shift in how people interact with computers. I’m excited to back this great team and see what a modern take on this problem looks like!

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  Tim Geisendoerfer (@djgeisi) reported 41 minutes ago

  @JXXSL @DropboxSupport Yep we saw the same errors now we get 501 errors on the upload endpoints.

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  Lowkea (@lowkea713) reported 43 minutes ago

  Dropbox if you could please fix your self I have an uncomfortable amount of music in your app and now I can’t log in

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  Open Air (@andon_open_air) reported 46 minutes ago

  @TomKonkle Agreed—the mailbox route is failing somewhere upstream. Let’s bypass it: please upload the WAV to Dropbox or WeTransfer and reply with a public, no-login direct-download link. I’ll verify the file before any airplay.

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  Nell AI Labs (@nellaiorgs) reported 50 minutes ago

  Three traits make a startup idea look bad because most founders run from all three, which leaves the idea sitting there for whoever doesn't. 1. Hard to get started Stripe is the textbook case. Thousands of developers hit the exact same broken credit card integration and knew it sucked. Nobody built the fix, because it required a special bank deal and deep infrastructure knowledge nobody wanted to acquire. That friction wasn't a warning sign. It was the moat. 2. Boring Gusto makes payroll software. Nobody's passionate about payroll. That's precisely why it sat unsolved — every "fun" idea gets fought over by ten founders, every boring one gets ignored by all of them. And here's the part people miss: six months into any startup, fun or boring, you're doing the same thing — writing code, fixing bugs, talking to users. The initial excitement of the idea has almost no correlation with how much you'll enjoy running the company. 3. Already has competitors Dropbox was the 20th file storage company at launch. Founders read "20 competitors" as a red flag. It's the opposite and evidence of real demand which nobody's nailed it. Zero competitors usually means zero market, not first-mover advantage. Founders optimize for what looks easy, not what actually works. The gap between those two is exactly where the good ideas live.

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  Digita (@digitaworld1) reported 51 minutes ago

  Lenovo login option entirely, expired every session that came through it, and started requiring a Dropbox password even when logging in that way going forward. Shares dipped about 2.4% after the news broke. The real lesson here has nothing to do with Dropbox's own security.

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  Ouriel (@OurielOhayon) reported 51 minutes ago

  @mntruell You seem to have substantial connector issues with Dropbox and Calendly.

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  Ricky Shah (@RickyShahatty) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Claudio_PNW @tax_birdie @AMandoSch Miller wanted the Dropbox released publicly. It is entirely up to the attorney to screen it. A bad client should make an attorney double down their efforts.

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  M.Ellis (@MEllisPhotograp) reported 57 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport Hi so thanks for keeping intouch and checking dm's pleased to report your website at moment is rubbish.... yes angry I pay for something that works not thats broken.. trying to perm delete file.. but 0 the file is still there my membership has only just renewed but 2nd thoughts -

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  Bit Paine ⚡️ (@BitPaine) reported 57 minutes ago

  I’m not seeing this reported anywhere on my feet, but there was a terrible data breach at @Dropbox. Not sure of the scale and how many accounts were compromised, but apparently the attackers utilized an exploit with Lenovo ID integration that backdoored access into Dropbox accounts bypassing completely 2FA, and other security measures, and it didn’t matter if you had a Lenovo account or not. The attackers simply signed up for a Lenovo account using your Dropbox-linked email and the exploit on Lenovo’s end allowed an account to be created without any verification that the attacker controlled the email address. This completely bypassed all of Dropbox’s security measures, and even gave the attackers access to documents stored within the client’s Dropbox. If you stored any potentially sensitive material within a Dropbox account, it would be a good idea to make sure it was not compromised and of course, move it immediately. Luckily, I was not compromised as far as I know, but to me this is an unforgivable oversight on the part of Dropbox security and I will be canceling my longtime subscription with them. Apple‘s iCloud offers superior security, including the option for end-to-end encryption which they call “Advanced Data Protection (ADP).” With ADP turned on, not even Apple can access your data without the decryption key.

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  Phillip Shoemaker (@pbsIdentity) reported 58 minutes ago

  India just ordered hundreds of Google Firebase accounts shut down after authorities found scammers using the platform to impersonate major banks. At least 57 Firebase-hosted websites and databases were targeted for takedown this month alone. Some mimicked banks. Others distributed malicious Android apps. Some were designed to steal financial information from phones. Here's what I find interesting. Firebase isn't some shady hosting company operating out of a basement. It's Google infrastructure. That's exactly why criminals want it. We've spent years teaching people to look for obvious signs of scams. Weird domain. Broken English. Sketchy hosting. Browser warning. No HTTPS. But increasingly the attacker doesn't need to build suspicious-looking infrastructure. They borrow legitimate infrastructure. Google. Microsoft. Cloudflare. GitHub. Dropbox. Whatever gives the attack credibility and reliability. Now imagine the average person inspecting the link. They recognize Google. The connection is encrypted. The page loads perfectly. The certificate is valid. Everything their brain has been trained to interpret as: SAFE may technically be true. Except the person controlling the page is a criminal. That's an important distinction. HTTPS proves your connection to the website is encrypted. It does not prove the person operating the website is honest. A Google URL proves Google is providing infrastructure. It doesn't necessarily prove Google created the content you're looking at. The little padlock was never a morality detector. We just accidentally trained an entire generation to treat it like one. India says scammers have increasingly shifted toward Firebase because its legitimate development tools and database functionality make it useful infrastructure for fraudulent sites and apps.

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  og bec (@becca_may33) reported 59 minutes ago

  can someone buy a dropbox so i can go get my dad a cake since i completely ****** this 6 hour cake up by dropping it face down pls. begging lmfao fml

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  David Simpkins (@DavidSimpkins88) reported 59 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.