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 (50%)
• Sign in (38%)
• Website Down (13%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Bournemouth	Sign in	21 days ago
Paramaribo	Errors	2 months ago
Bogotá	Website Down	2 months ago
Auxerre	Errors	2 months ago
Salt Lake City	Sign in	2 months ago
Madrid	Errors	2 months ago

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Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  AJ (@ce_aj100) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SsharmaKirti Maybe isse ek project bnalo... redundant file storage ( across various apps like dropbox, gdrive and local server ). And add video streaming capabilities based on the fastest avalable ( calculated dynamically ) service. I made this couple of years ago, but for different tasks

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  YC Insights. (@Aiagent_s) reported 12 minutes ago

  March 23, 2018. Dropbox IPOs on NASDAQ. Surges 40%+ day one. Market cap: $12B First YC company ever to go public. Drew still owned 30%. The real lesson: both rejections were right. Both made the company better. Treat each rejection as a specific diagnosis. Then fix that specific thing.

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  GRETA (@Greta__ai) reported 15 minutes ago

  We added Asset Manager to Greta. You're building an ecommerce app: product images, demo videos, docs, case studies. Before: Upload images to Cloudinary, videos to S3, docs to Dropbox, links scattered everywhere. One breaks, and you're scrambling through three different services trying to find the original. Now: Upload once in Greta. Reuse assets across all your projects, with everything centralized. No external services. No broken links. No context switching between five different platforms while you're trying to ship. That's smoother. That's what actually building feels like. 50 MB per file. Images auto-compress.

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  Cane Allesta (@caneallesta) reported 17 minutes ago

  Your password manager has never actually managed anything. It just nagged you. That changes with iOS 27. At WWDC26, Apple announced what might be the clearest example of agentic AI shipping in a consumer product this year: the Passwords app, combined with Apple Intelligence and Safari, can now autonomously navigate to a website, sign in, change your weak or compromised password to a strong one, and save the new credential back to the vault all triggered by a single tap. A Live Activity indicator appears on screen so you can see it working, but you don't have to do anything else. The word "agentic" is doing a lot of work right now in the industry, often covering vague multi-step demos that never quite ship. Apple's move here is different because it's not broad automation it's surgical. The Passwords app already flagged weak, reused, or breached credentials, so the AI layer had a clearly scoped problem to solve: remove the friction between "you know your password is compromised" and "you actually changed it." That gap was enormous. Most people never close it. The competitive context makes this sharper. Google has been shipping Gemini's agentic features on Galaxy S26 and Pixel devices since early 2026, handling cross-app tasks like ordering food on Uber Eats or booking rides in Lyft broad, flashy, and currently limited to a short list of supported apps. Apple's answer is narrower on paper but arguably lands harder because it touches something every single user has: compromised passwords sitting in a list they've been ignoring for months. What Apple is really doing here is establishing trust in an agentic pattern before asking users to hand over bigger tasks. If your phone can autonomously change your Dropbox password without you watching every click, and nothing goes wrong, you're psychologically a lot more comfortable when it eventually offers to autonomously book a flight or fill out a form. It's the same trick that got people comfortable with Face ID start with something small where the upside is obvious and the downside is contained. The feature ships with iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 this autumn, with developer betas available now and public beta expected in July. For the password manager space 1Password, Dashlane, Bitwarden this is a quiet alarm. Apple just made "auto-fix compromised credentials" a native OS feature. Good luck charging $3/month for that. #WWDC26

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  Pelicart (@pelicartza) reported 18 minutes ago

  @lukey_stephens @_avdept real also - dropbox??? why would you pay $5 and not just set up an sftp server

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  Arthur "lynch mob" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ (@Arthur_van_Pelt) reported 18 minutes ago

  @laz1m0v @adam3us You want a multifunctional database. Go try BSV or Microsoft SQL Server or Arweave. They have what you want. Bitcoin is money. Not a Pepe Dropbox. Go take your Pepes elsewhere, please. Then we wouldn't even need filters if everyone behaved in the spirit of Cash instead of Pepe.

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  TechSnif (@techsnif) reported 21 minutes ago

  Dropbox founder Drew Houston steps down as CEO after 19 years, replaced by SVP Ashraf Alkarmi

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  2Do (@2DoApp) reported 25 minutes ago

  @PhilipLeworthy The Android app is going to unfortunately remain on CalDAV + Dropbox sync for now. I'll be updating it to fix a few issues as well as Tablet related compatibility issues but not major features planned. It remains functional the way it is albeit with a few limitations.

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  Auntieesq (@daniell0930) reported 28 minutes ago

  @MikeJShowalter The issue is the use of the data to train models not retention. Acting as if this is the same a Dropbox is disingenuous. They will not use the data to train for non-safety issues. Non-safety issue is doing some heavy lifting there. Do they have an outline of what this means?

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  J. (@munchivelo) reported 33 minutes ago

  track back to just over a year to now. i'd built an automated ecommerce flow that took a whole store end to end. seo would research trends, products, and map those into .js scripts which would launch prompts that read those research files. that would feed an image gen prompt which created designs, set to specific standard. i'd generate them, and then ANOTHER prompt, would check the images, score them with a criteria, and either move them to an accepted folder, or move them to an archive folder. the accepted folders, would automatically fire a script which would open photoshop, map the image to smart layers, in a 'product shot' template i'd made, and then export all of the final product shots to another folder, and then exported the flat designs which would be used for the products. another script took the product images, did visual lookups, generated all product descriptions, renamed the images and generated the seo text. it ran optimizations locally via a jpegoptim and oxipng script. it then uploaded them to dropbox, and via API, would generate a dropbox link map. i had one barebones csv template, which i'd run a ps1 script through to map json files into the csv rows, and insert the dropbox link map. all my images, links, followed the exact same slugs, so it turned 2 hours of manual work into a 5 second bulk rename and insert. it then converted that csv into json, which then itself converted that json into ld-json for product rich listings. ai would write the product description based on a dataseo keywords, and googletrends json file that would run on every product type. collecting keywords for that specific product. it also formed it around brand profiles, copy guides and other things. this was sonnet 3 days, GPT 4.0 days, and it STILL wrote great copy when it had the right guidance. in the .js file, i'd replace all em dashes with a hyphen if they ever appeared. i built a custom product uploader, built my own php plugin which synced to local .js files and connected via rest. it was (and still is) one of the best wc product uploaders that exist, as it completely resets filterlookups only for that product, and is lightning fast because i upload it directly into woocommerce rows from json. no importers, no wordpress malarkey, or WC rest needed. it was 50x faster than wc's own CSV import. the images would be uploaded via ftp, and then on detection, would sync those to the media library, and i'd upload the image meta from the seo run, so they all had captions/alt text etc. it took what would be 3-5 hours of manual work per product, and congested it into a 2 minute image to fully live product system. after that, i'd export sales data, the ai was constantly learning, sales data feeding back to files, which would then teach the ai what products work, what doesn't. what copy worked, what copy didn't. that would then flow back into the original source files which told the ai what images to gen and what products to launch. all of it was local on my pc. i wasn't selling an saas. it was just something that worked for my very particular setup. the thing about it is; i built that mostly with GPT 4.0 and a little bit of 3.5! mostly copy and pasting code manually from the chats in chatGPT. all the plugins, the php, everything. then some of it got improved inside vscode back on the old original copilot plans, when $10 used to last you an entire month of none stop coding. this was before n8n, before agents were even a thing. all of that I built very specifically for myself, local, syncing folder to folder, json file to json file. python scripts watching files, and .ps1 files that would follow up with other .ps1 files, which launched .js files which contained prompts for AI, and hitting the openAI API's whenever I needed the AI layer. eventually i built a terminal tool, which would allow me to run the scripts from the terminal, and i'd manually type in the slugs for which products i wanted processed. all files would sit in specific folders, and scripts would do the rest. i was so excited about that, giving my terminal app a shortcut icon and putting it onto my taskbar. that was a year ago. fast forward to now. the game has changed so much. ANYTHING and i mean anything is possible now. people 'new' to codex, and CC etc don't know how good they have it. but i've had this ******* idea for so long, to build a fully automated, self learning ecom business, that launches products end to end based on it's own research, writing, and growth, but the complexity of it previously , and being busy with life, it never got finalized. the secret is i sync it via etsy too, but they're API keys take FOREVER to aquire, but built my own etsy system, product uploader, which runs across 7 different stores. however, now, i've finally been building the replacement for it. i'll be able to run that exact same system, except this time through a full app, with a canvas, and agent systems instead of .ps1 scripts. not to say i won't run scripts; they're an integral part of any automated workflow, but now it has superpowers, and it can do so so so much more. all the ideas I wanted to do, automated, fully, end to end. not only that, but i moved away from woocommerce entirely. instead i just built my own website builder, which is also fully automated end to end. my brand profiles, my artwork system? i'm still using those, just for more things. now i can launch 50 brands just like it, running the same system, all in about 5 minutes. whether it's saas, local service, or online ecom. i also built an ai automated ad builder. it takes my brands images, or generates images. i've got background removers, and full skills and agents which fully generate the ads for me. it mixes all that into seedance videos, and posts in logos etc. now i take those image/videos, and build instagram, tiktok, facebook vids, generate descriptions, and upload them automatically. it has an every growing library to source from, templates to use, and the system derives right with the websites, so all themes/styles match precisely to the brand. this is why it's so great building for yourself. the amount of reusability you get with it, the fact it's free forever, can never be beaten. none of these saas companies get it. and they're heading in the wrong direction. we could already DO half of what these companies are doing. my own personal SEO system, which i built for my automated web builder, is already 10x better than any yoast, rankmath etc. i skip expensive ahrefs, semrush, and just rebuild their services myself, using API, which is 100x cheaper. except this time it FEEDS my system, and i don't need to lay a finger on it. nobody cares about these little one off apps that won't exist in a year. they're either failing to see the future, or they're hoping for an early exit before they know the dominos start falling. people will want PRIVATE systems. all speaking to each other. not 1200 integrations and 1200 invoices to send to, that don't even have a ******* brain. i'm not selling anything yet. but if you're interested in seeing how i think about automation, then stay a while and listen. the tool i'm building will absolutely help you too. but i'll be honest. i'm actually quite scared to release it, solely down to how powerful it is. not many people do it like i do, and i'm finally on here to tell the world.

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  Naughty kayla🤤💦 (@Naughtykayla127) reported 37 minutes ago

  Bored and horny 🥺 who is down for my Dropbox and ft Discount price 🤭#jacksonvillemeets #904freaks #jaxfreaks

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  Anuroop Kumar (@anuroopk4u) reported 38 minutes ago

  @jasonlk I remember as a teen, Dropbox set the standard. It was Dropbox, AirBnB, and Uber - as these “new economy” startups that were changing the world. Frankly speaking, Google Drive just started to do more for me and integrated easier sharing down the road. There was no value add I was getting from Dropbox once storage got commoditized.

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  Colin Turner (@ColinTurnerTN66) reported 38 minutes ago

  @pinutos @AZAGMayes The Recorder can do that. Security is far too lax on the dropbox/early voting system and the board has shown no initiative to fix the problem. Looking forward to the suit.

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  Washington Report (@Washington_Rep) reported 39 minutes ago

  @BusinessInsider 📌 Dropbox founder Drew Houston is transitioning out of the CEO role, with Ashraf Alkarmi stepping in as co‑CEO before becoming sole chief executive. Houston will shift into an executive chairman position after a transition period in which he and Alkarmi share the co‑CEO title. 🧭 Leadership Transition: - Drew Houston is stepping down after nearly two decades leading Dropbox, moving into an executive chairman role following a period as co‑CEO with Ashraf Alkarmi. - Alkarmi, previously Dropbox’s head of product and general manager of its core business, becomes co‑CEO effective immediately and will later assume the role of sole CEO. 🧩 Background on Ashraf Alkarmi: - Joined Dropbox in late 2024 after senior product roles at Vimeo, Amazon (including Amazon Freevee), and Meta. - Credited internally with making Dropbox more responsive to customers and pushing for bolder product innovation. - Will receive an annual salary of $825,000, a target bonus equal to base salary, and $12.65M in restricted stock units vesting over several years. 📉 Company Context: - Dropbox’s market cap is just over $6 billion, roughly half its value at IPO in 2018. - Competition from Google, Apple, and Microsoft has pressured its core storage business, with revenue growth slowing to under 1% year‑over‑year. - The company reported $629.5M in Q1 2026 revenue and more than 18 million paying users. 🚀 Houston’s Next Chapter: - Houston, now 43, says his next move will be entrepreneurial and AI‑focused, not retirement.

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  RyanFox.eth (@ryanfoxeth) reported 39 minutes ago

  “consumer doesn't run on problems” 👏 Consumers will pay to be entertained. Businesses will pay to be productive. This is a lesson the tech industry is forced to learn every decade or so. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Dropbox, Evernote, Quip, AirTable, Trello, etc have all learned this the hard way. We saw it play out in crypto. Today it’s playing out in OpenAI vs Anthropic.

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  🔆 j i k o ⋆₊ ‧ ˚⊹ 🏜️ (@lisey_ann) reported 39 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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  Auritrack - AI-powered expense tracker (@auritrack) reported 42 minutes ago

  How $9.99 a month for “just one app” became the most profitable business model of the last decade. The math behind subscription creep Adobe had a very huge effect on Photoshop boxed sales in 2013, same software, now $20.99 a month forever. Revenue went from $4.4 billion to over $21 billion in ten years. The product didn’t change, the billing did. Companies Learned Something Brutal: - People fight a $200 charge - People ignore a $9.99 one So they sliced everything into $9.99s. Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Apple TV+, Peacock, Paramount+, Audible, Kindle Unlimited, NYT, WSJ, Substacks, Notion, Dropbox, iCloud, Google One. Add a gym membership and a meal kit and you’re at $400 a month before rent. The Trick: every individual service feels reasonable, the bundle feels invisible, banks don’t surface the total and apps don’t show what else you’re paying but you have to add it up yourself. Most people are off by 60% when asked to guess their monthly subscription spend. Banks reviewed this in 2024, off by $130 a month on average. The fix isn’t dramatic. Pull last month’s statement, highlight every recurring charge, cancel three. Most people save $80+ a month with that one exercise. Auritrack does this automatically, every recurring charge gets a tag, the forgotten ones get flagged. Follow for more money stories.

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  TeX64 (@TeX64AI) reported 44 minutes ago

  that's a sync-direction race: your web edits haven't reached the local Dropbox copy yet, so Claude overwrites a stale file. nothing's lost though, Overleaf's History menu keeps every version to restore from. fix: let Dropbox finish pulling before Claude edits.

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  Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) reported 47 minutes ago

  Setting 4: Kill background login items. Open System Settings → General → Login Items & Extensions. Look under "Allow in the Background." You'll see 15 to 40 items running constantly. Dropbox helpers. Google updaters. Microsoft Teams. Adobe Creative Cloud. Toggle off anything you don't use every day.

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  ray🥤 (@rayontrack) reported 48 minutes ago

  bookmarked, downloaded, screen recorded, emailed, stored in hard drive, uploaded to cloud, archived, backed up, shared via bluetooth, forwarded, copied to usb, saved offline, synced across devices, added to favourites, printed, password protected, compressed into zip, renamed, organised into folders, duplicated, exported, imported, attached to message, sent to recycle bin, restored from backup, converted to pdf, edited, highlighted, annotated, watermarked, uploaded to google drive, uploaded to dropbox, shared through airdrop, linked to notes, tagged, encrypted, burned to cd/dvd, cached, mirrored to another device, uploaded to server, queued for transfer, dragged into archive, pinned, added to reading list, stored on ssd, embedded in document, linked in spreadsheet, previewed, sent to printer queue, recovered from trash, and indexed for search.

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  brett goldstein (@thatguybg) reported 49 minutes ago

  clean but slow founder announcement video - lighting is really nice - music matches minimalist energy - glad to see the founder making this announcement but - waits WAYYY too long (til 1:24) to say what they're announcing. longest I've seen. - too much time on a problem everyone already gets - missed op animating visuals over hand gestures when explaining stuff - visuals way too small - captions are hard to read / too long - opening is a little awk - spenser sounds very nice when he says the first line, then drops the f bomb - script needs to be tightened up a ton - end kinda trails off and no CTA lots of people try this "breaking the third wall" opener where you show some authentic conversation preparing for a take, but a lot of folks mess up trying to fake it. dropbox had a bad one and this is similar. length is the killer with this. at 25k impressions, I'd be surprised if more than 100 people actually watched through to when he actually says what the product is. think this could have been a 5/5 if it was shorter, more to the point, and a really good animator worked with the script to animate things around spenser as he spoke.

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  Juan (@0xfJuan) reported 50 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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  markusdd (@markusdd5) reported 51 minutes ago

  I have the feeling - when I see who is posting this table over and over on here - that this is just a campaign so institutionals can get in cheaper. How am I remotely interested in the statistics within a 1 year window. (apart from the fact that there are many companies on that list that neither have a unique selling point (Dropbox, Doordash, Pinterest etc..) nor were they economically super great investment casess with a lot of upside. It is of course very likely that SPCX will trade extremely volatile within the first year and that we will also see cash-outs by long term private equity holders once the lock-period expires. So if you have cash set aside - no investment advice - consider just not throwing it in all at once. I personally plan on playing this in 3 tranches. 1/3 today, 1/3 on the first significant draw down and then another 1/3 whenever I feel it is appropriate.

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  Marcin Moskała (@marcinmoskala) reported 51 minutes ago

  StrictMode is a developer tool which detects things you might be doing by accident and brings them to your attention so you can fix them. StrictMode.ThreadPolicy among others can detect: - slow (blocking) operations on UI thread (detectCustomSlowCalls()) - blocking disc reads/writes on UI thread (detectDiskReads()/detectDiskWrites()) - mismatches between defined resource types and getter calls (detectResourceMismatches()) StrictMode.VmPolicy among others can detect: - leaks of Activity subclasses (detectActivityLeaks()) - when an SQLiteCursor or other SQLite object is finalized without having been closed. (detectLeakedSqlLiteObjects()) - when your app is blocked from launching a background activity or a PendingIntent created by your app cannot be launched (detectBlockedBackgroundActivityLaunch()) - when the calling application exposes a file:// Uri to another app (detectFileUriExposure()) - attempts to invoke a method on a Context that is not suited for such operation (detectIncorrectContextUse()) For both of them, we can specify a penalty: - penaltyLog() - Logs detected violations to the system log. - penaltyDeath() - Crashes the whole process on violation. - penaltyDialog() - Shows an annoying dialog to the developer on detected violations, rate-limited to be only a little annoying. - penaltyDropBox() - Enables detected violations log a stacktrace and timing data to the DropBox on policy violation. - penaltyFlashScreen() - Flashes the screen during a violation. - penaltyListener(…) - Set specific listener on violation.

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  11B_geek_w_gun (@11B_GWG) reported 54 minutes ago

  @wtfcetialpha5 @sarahadams @Dropbox I'd argue a self-hosted ssh server and DDNS service is more "free" depending on your technical ability to setup. But there are advantages to Proton Drive. Both are viable solutions.

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  Ral K' Thar (@RalKThar) reported 56 minutes ago

  There is an easy to fix things in the uploaded to Dropbox version that Grok garbled. It just makes it so any API key comes up as invalid.

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  Blake Heron (@BlakeHer_on) reported 57 minutes ago

  @StartupArchive_ the dropbox and uber examples are the tell. scratch your own itch, ship the fix, discover a million people had the same itch.

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  Harshita Renee (@harshitaxmars) reported 58 minutes ago

  Despite me having proven him wrong about the exact requirement table issue he pinned on me as a “it’s her problem, shut her up” (Dropbox has the scoresheet proving I was not out of line, they were), I don’t think he can ever be wrong. That is just technical error on his part.

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  Sara (@monamouroui) reported 1 hour ago

  Why did Microsoft OneDrive just delete all of my Dropbox files? What a fracking PITA. You just created a huge problem for me. This might make me jump to a Mac. I am so disgusted and frustrated by what Microsoft running Windows 11 just did to my computer. Dozens of years of documents....whoosh. @Microsoft

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  Ketsu3D🔞 | C✶mms Open 2/2 :) (@Ketsu_3D) reported 1 hour ago

  @C3_NSFTooth Itch io could be the way to go. They've recently started walking back on several limiting NSFW things that were forced on them by payment processors. Else Dropbox and Mega are options as well, though Mega is a terrible website to use and will force their App down your throat.