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.

• Sign in (40%)
• Errors (40%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	2 months ago
Paramaribo	Errors	2 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	2 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	2 months ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	3 months ago
Madrid	Errors	3 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Spencer Baggins (@bigaiguy) reported 2 minutes ago

  SOMEONE BUILT A GITHUB REPO THAT TURNS TELEGRAM INTO UNLIMITED CLOUD STORAGE. 100% free. It is called UnlimCloud. Self-hosted-ish desktop app. Open source. Uses Telegram as the storage layer. You log in with your Telegram ID. Upload files. Download files. Organize folders. Manage pictures and videos in a gallery. That is it. No Google Drive upgrade screen. No Dropbox “you are out of space.” No iCloud begging for $2.99/month. No random startup holding your files hostage. Your Telegram. Your files. Your storage. Here is the full feature set: ↳ Uses Telegram as the backend storage layer ↳ Secure login with your Telegram account ↳ Upload, download, and organize files ↳ Folder-based file management ↳ Gallery for photos and videos ↳ Clean desktop app interface ↳ Built with Tauri ↳ Windows release available ↳ macOS and Linux coming soon ↳ MIT licensed ↳ Open source 885 GitHub stars. 125 forks already. Here is why this matters: For years, cloud storage companies trained everyone to rent space for their own files forever. Photos? Pay. Backups? Pay. Large folders? Pay. Team storage? Pay more. UnlimCloud is the opposite idea. Take an app people already use every day. Telegram. And turn it into a private cloud drive with a clean file manager on top. No storage subscription. No SaaS dashboard. No “pro” plan. Just a weird, useful, open-source hack that feels like it should not work this well. Built in HTML + Rust. MIT License. 100% Open Source.

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  🔆 j i k o ⋆₊ ‧ ˚⊹ 🏜️ (@lisey_ann) reported 2 minutes ago

  @joinautopilot @charliebilello I can see why a bunch of those are sagging (joke? Or maybe I'm not joking): - Snapchat is in decline, less users overall. - Streaming subscriptions are becoming too expensive to keep up w/ inflation - X likely sagging ever since its lead advertisers left - Dropbox: user usage declining? (I use Google drive, Mega) - Alibaba: Chinese knockoffs, not bound to survive long - doordash: getting too expensive, way too many fees whenever I've used it, even WITH the discounts - Roblox: declining corporate - Snap: declining user usage, they constantly advertise Snapchat+ and idk anyone who actually uses that - Facebook: meta's side hussles were failing (notable: metaverse shutdown) - coinbase: app is ALWAYS buggy, slow, Base wallet became infested with scam tokens with no way to report, I personally stopped using it for this reason - pinterest: we just have AI to put together mood boards now, Pinterest not needed - Uber: same fee problem as doordash plus majority of gig drivers in my experience are the same few Indian drivers - uipath: likely not keeping up with the AI agent competition - bumble: women are probably tired of it tbh - lyft: same problems as Uber and doordash I can't answer for some others because I'm not as familiar or just can't think of a reason why they have poorer returns, so I dunno.

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  Nikolay Konovalov (@br11k_dev) reported 3 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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  Igor Trunin (@igortr_) reported 5 minutes ago

  3 post types: 1/ question — unsolved problem 2/ TIL — short find, like a bug 3/ blueprint — working solution Already ~100 posts live. Most are TILs. Example: Dropbox on macOS lives at /CloudStorage/Dropbox-{TeamName}/ not ~/Dropbox/. small but genuinely useful

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  Hospital Hell (@HospitalHell) reported 8 minutes ago

  @SteveHiltonx The mostly mail-in/dropbox election system in California is painfully slow, but that doesn’t make it in any way fraudulent.

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  Teja Punna (@punna_teja) reported 8 minutes ago

  Indian Government: "We've blocked Telegram to protect the NEET exam." The Internet: So the problem was... Telegram? Not the people selling fake papers? Not the organised scam networks? Not the thousands of mule bank accounts? Not the hundreds of disposable SIM cards? Not the fake payment gateways? Not the people exploiting students' panic and desperation? Solution: Block Telegram. Meanwhile: ✅ Discord still exists. ✅ WhatsApp still exists. ✅ Signal still exists. ✅ Slack still exists. ✅ Email still exists. ✅ Google Drive still exists. ✅ Dropbox still exists. ✅ OneDrive still exists. ✅ iMessage still exists. ✅ Bluetooth still exists. ✅ AirDrop still exists. ✅ The entire web still exists. Scammers: "No problem. See you tomorrow on another platform." Meanwhile, millions of legitimate users who rely on Telegram for: College and study groups Open-source communities Cybersecurity research Software development Startups and businesses Education and learning News and information sharing are left wondering what they did wrong. The platform changes. The abuse doesn't. Target the criminals. Not the communication tools.

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  Mark van Eijk (@markvaneijk) reported 8 minutes ago

  @freekmurze It's the most stable beta in last 15 years. These apps I also use still work: Dropbox, PHP, Conductor. I did not encounter any issues, besides sometimes a lag here and there (regular beta stuff).

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  kelsey (@kelsscarlet) reported 8 minutes ago

  i knowwwww somebody gotta be down to pay $100 for my dropbox folder w 770 files 👀 mommy needs gas to go to portland for a concert tn

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  Om Modi (@ocmodi21) reported 9 minutes ago

  When people ask why companies like Uber, Twitch, Dropbox, and many startups use Go for backend services... The answer isn't just performance. Go was designed to solve many of the problems microservices introduce. Let's break it down. 🧵

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  I Have No Pearls And I Must Clutch (@JamesKi26687305) reported 10 minutes ago

  @realJoelFischer @POTUS @WhiteHouse Don't forget he could have had Hillary's server and decided she could keep them. And Anthony ******'s laptop. And the Imran Awan files that the brothers moved to Dropbox from classified Cogressional email servers. He had access to EVERYTHING, and chose to weaponize the FBI.

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  Mike Nolan - ⌬CatalyticComics⌬ (@CatalyticComics) reported 11 minutes ago

  As a developer I wanted to build something that addresses every issue I've run in to as a reader. These are my top ones: - Campaigner emails a Dropbox link and maybe you miss it - DRM/server requirements that amount to "you don't really own it" - No above-board way to share

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  Wahinya Francis (@wahinyaf8) reported 15 minutes ago

  Dropbox solved a simple problem: How do you access your files from anywhere? Cloud storage became popular because people wanted their files available on every device. Convenience drives technology.

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  yera. (@1stplaceee__) reported 19 minutes ago

  You down for my nasty FaceTime and Dropbox video HMU📨📥💦🍑

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  PodWire (@PodWireHQ) reported 19 minutes ago

  Founders building AI-native companies benchmark against Sierra and Harvey, then hedge by planning for half those growth rates. Mark Roberge (@markroberge) says the number they are halving is often not real. The former HubSpot CRO has looked under the hood at some of these outliers and says it is not all clean living. Headline ARR leans on contracted-ARR gimmicks. The distribution is a PLG motion from the 2010 Dropbox playbook, SMBs and frontline reps switching tools on an experimentation budget, not a production budget. Add uncapped burn and no unit-economics discipline and the curve everyone is copying may not be real growth. Some gold in there, he says, but a lot of Groupons and WeWorks. The trap is every founder thinking they are the exception. His fix is to stop importing another company's burn rate and do the math on what is actually optimal. Key takeaways already in your email via @PodWireHQ Source: Grit with @Joubinmir

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  Duaa 🤲🇮🇳 (@Duaa_1206) reported 20 minutes ago

  @himasoraakane Doing digital forensics on Dropbox error screens to investigate a suspended account is a whole new level of investigative work.

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  ؘ (@sylusisms) reported 20 minutes ago

  once this issue with my photo album is fixed im saving every single one and adding on google drive or dropbox

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  ScarcityMan (@ScarcityMan) reported 24 minutes ago

  @balkanhodl @hodlonaut Even worse than that. It's dropbox except every archival node runner is providing storage space for free, so like, dropbox where you host your data and pay for your own server...

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  Ryan McKeen (@ryanmckeen) reported 26 minutes ago

  Lawyers, your data lives in six places and you wonder why AI can't help you. Dropbox. Drive. Email. A hard drive. Two spreadsheets only one person can find. Fix that first.

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  Ricker (@0xRicker) reported 29 minutes ago

  Senior engineer just dropped a GPT-5.6 stress test after burning around $200K on API usage: 00:00 - $180K–$240K spent testing GPT-5.6 in Fast Mode 02:43 - The model using browsers, dashboards and settings like a remote operator 05:32 - 67 projects and 20+ hour autonomous sessions 07:07 - Lakebed, T3 Code and native app rewrites in 2–4 hours 15:08 - Rust compiler experiments, 18x speedup and a $91K Dropbox-style build 17:46 - GPT-5.6 fixing a broken Linux GRUB boot through KVM 22:56 - 3D games, weird assets and the remaining frontend taste problem It is a field test for agent loops The future edge is not the prompt It is the loop that can keep working after the prompt stops being useful

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  Oliver Prompts (@oliviscusAI) reported 30 minutes ago

  you pay google, dropbox, and apple $10+/month to store your files on their servers, where they can read them. and dropbox already got breached in 2024. there's a tool that syncs your files directly between your own devices. no cloud, no server, no middleman. it's called syncthing. → real-time sync between any number of devices, peer-to-peer → files go straight between your devices, never touching a third-party server → tls encryption with perfect forward secrecy on every connection → works over lan and internet, no port forwarding needed → file versioning, roll back anything you changed or deleted there is no syncthing server. no syncthing cloud. no company storing your data. the protocol is open, and there's nothing between your devices except an encrypted tunnel. dropbox plus is $144/year. google one 2tb is $120/year. syncthing is $0, unlimited devices, unlimited storage, forever. battle-tested since 2013. run by a swedish non-profit. 100% free. open source.

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  Kieran 🥃🎶🐇 (@KGeorgee) reported 30 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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  Mary, The Other Mrs P 🇺🇸💙🇺🇦📎 (@bvmaryp) reported 31 minutes ago

  @JohnLaMacc What voter fraud? What Dropbox problem?

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  EchoMind (@ai0echomind) reported 33 minutes ago

  Everyone's arguing about which cloud API is cheapest. Almost nobody's asking what happens when the smartest teams stop paying at all. A quiet migration is already underway. Most of AI Twitter is still comparing token prices inside the room the smartest teams already walked out of. The debate right now runs on the exact same track it always does. AWS vs Anthropic vs OpenAI: which model is cheaper per million tokens; which volume discount kicks in at what threshold; which enterprise deal moved which quarter. All of it real, all of it loud, and all of it happening inside the assumption that renting AI compute is the only reasonable option. That assumption is where most of the argument sits, and it is quietly getting tested by teams that stopped participating in it altogether. The clearest visible case is a Chinese startup that packed roughly 1,000 Mac Mini M4 computers into a single data center to run AI workloads without paying ongoing cloud fees. Each unit costs $599. Each draws between 10 and 30 watts under load, compared to 300 to 500 watts for a traditional GPU server. Total hardware outlay for the cluster is under a million dollars, in a category where the equivalent GPU infrastructure runs closer to ten. Once the build is paid off, the ongoing bill is electricity and a small operations team. That is the entire cost curve, and it stops moving after year one. None of this is a new pattern. In 2015, Dropbox was paying AWS more than $200 million a year just for S3 storage. Between 2015 and 2017, the company moved most of its infrastructure onto its own hardware and saved $74.6 million in the first two years alone, and its gross margins went from 33 percent to 67 percent. The tech press at the time called it a bet against conventional wisdom. It also turned out to be one of the highest-leverage financial decisions the company ever made. Every time a rented input gets cheap enough to run locally at scale, the market that rented it starts shrinking, and the teams that notice first collect most of the benefit. The uncomfortable thing about this pattern is that it is easy to miss because the loudest people in the market never leave: cloud providers keep publishing pricing pages; analysts keep tracking token costs; founders keep tweeting spreadsheets. Meanwhile a smaller, quieter set of teams is running the same workloads on hardware they own, at a fraction of the recurring cost, without an announcement thread about it. The exit is not visible in the debate because the teams who exited stopped participating in the debate. Which category of AI work in your life still feels expensive today, but might not need a cloud API in eighteen months? Save this. You will want it back when the first big AI-native company announces it is bringing its inference workload in-house. Follow for the next one.

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  Santiago Bustelo (@sbustelo) reported 35 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport THEY ARE GIVING ME CANNED REPLIES. YOU SCREWED MY WORK AND BURIED ME FOR THE FOLLOWING MONTHS TO FIX UP THE MESS YOU MADE UP WITH MY FILES. I DEMAND A REFUND.

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  Sujay. (@Sujay__Raj) reported 35 minutes ago

  Here is what it breaks down: Local AI: Run Ollama, LM Studio, or LocalAI right on your machine instead of paying for ChatGPT. Cloud Storage: Replace Dropbox and Google Drive with Nextcloud or Syncthing so your files never leave your house. Network Privacy: Complete WireGuard and PiVPN setup guides for secure browsing. Private ***: Ditch GitHub and self-host your own repos using Gitea or GitLab.

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  Santiago Bustelo (@sbustelo) reported 36 minutes ago

  @DropboxSupport More details? “I am really sorry for any inconvenience this is causing. We'll update you shortly on this issue.    In the meantime, please let me know if you have any further questions.   Best regards,  Jesse | Advanced Support” That’s the “support” I’m getting. FULL REFUND NOW

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  The Open Web JP (@TheOpenWebJP1) reported 37 minutes ago

  @heyyyyyieeee @Maha_kalpa @grok It's not recommended as "unlimited free cloud storage" because GitHub isn't designed for that, and practical limits + performance issues kick in quickly. GitHub private repos are free and unlimited in number, which is what the original tip relies on. But: Hard file limits: Individual files over 100 MB are blocked (50 MB triggers a warning). Browser uploads are capped even lower (~25 MB). Larger files require *** LFS. Repo size guidance: GitHub recommends keeping repositories under 1 GB (strongly under 5 GB / ~10 GB on-disk for the .*** folder). Big media dumps make clones, fetches, and history operations painfully slow or impractical. *** LFS quotas (needed for anything large): Free tier includes only 10 GB storage + 10 GB bandwidth per month. Exceed that and you hit blocks or billing (depending on settings). It's version control, not a drive: *** tracks history, so every change bloats the repo. Binaries (photos, videos, etc.) are inefficient in ***. No nice file-browser UI, easy sharing links, or sync like real cloud storage (Drive, Dropbox, etc.). Risk of friction: Heavy non-code usage can trigger performance throttling, support flags, or ToS-related reviews if it looks like abuse of the platform. GitHub actively monitors repo health signals. It's fine for small code-adjacent backups or a few files. Terrible as a general-purpose unlimited media dump. Use actual cloud storage (or object storage) for that.

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  Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) reported 42 minutes ago

  Well this is ironic: Ironic: been recommending a resume service built by an ex-Dropbox eng for years (a side project, but a good one.) Dev pivoted to building an AI Engineer - fine! But now resume site is down. Customers billed. Support nonexistent. AI made it... a lot worse!

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  Juan (@0xfJuan) reported 46 minutes ago

  i studied some of the most viral @ycombinator launches the wild part isn't that they blew up it's that they all did it the exact same way, across totally different products and time frames here's the pattern (steal it before your next launch): 1/ record a 60-90 sec demo that shows the product doing the one thing it's best at. no talking-head intro, screen capture straight into the magic moment 2/ ship the video before the product is polished. dropbox demoed something that barely worked and pulled 75k signups overnight. the demo is the mvp 3/ launch where your buyers already are, not on your own page. find the 3 subreddits, discords, or forums they actually live in and post native in each 4/ rewrite your title in their language. lurk the community for an hour, steal the phrasing they use, drop one in-joke so it reads like a member not an ad 5/ open with "the first X" or "we're replacing X." claim a category instead of competing inside one 6/ cut every feature line. replace it with what the user can do that they couldn't yesterday 7/ pick one person it's for and call them out. "if you're a solo founder drowning in support tickets, this is for you" 8/ line up 10-20 people before launch day. send them the exact time, the link, and 3 sample quote tweets to mirror in the first hour 9/ build the invite into the product itself. every share, referral, or output should pull someone new in automatically 10/ the first 48 hours decide everything. reply to every comment and quote the best reactions while the algo is still pushing it the pattern that never changes: distribution beats product. the best launched company wins, not the best built one. (note: comment "launch" and i'll send you a doc breaking down the most viral launches of 2026)

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  Mark Hadfield (@Mhadfield) reported 54 minutes ago

  @butshaunn A lot of VCs get very excited about one thing, like a groundbreaking new company that has massive traction. They spend the next six months looking for the next best thing, which in their mind looks a lot like the last thing that went crazy. This is how you get silly comments like "can you replicate an exchange server into Dropbox?" Dropbox was the last thing that went crazy. And so now everything needs to get replicated into it.