Dropbox Outage Map

Community Discussion

Tips? Frustrations? Share them here. Useful comments include a description of the problem, city and postal code.

Beware of "support numbers" or "recovery" accounts that might be posted below. Make sure to report and downvote those comments. Avoid posting your personal information.

Dropbox Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

• 
  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 2 minutes ago

  System design question. How would you design Dropbox-style file sync with conflict handling? Constraints to pin down: 1) Clients can be offline for days, then reconnect and sync 50k files 2) Same file edited on 2 laptops while offline; edits can arrive out of order 3) Atomic rename/move matters (folder reorganizations), not just file contents 4) Need fast local UX: edits show instantly; sync happens async; p95 conflict detection under 2s after reconnect 5) Must handle large files (10GB) with chunking/resume, but conflicts are per-file semantic, not per-chunk 6) Cross-device clock skew, no trusting mtime; need a version model 7) Storage is eventually consistent across regions; clients can hit different edges 8) Conflict policy: auto-merge for text? duplicate files? keep both? how do you avoid conflict loops? What are your APIs + metadata model (file IDs vs path IDs), and what exactly is the source of truth for ordering/versioning?

• 
  Long Long Int (@LongLongInteger) reported 2 minutes ago

  Topic 7: Checksum: ========= Input Data -> Cryptographic hash functions like MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512 -> fixed size string is called checksum Checksum is used for checking data corruption during data transfer/upload Can be done both client-side and server-side Advantages of client-side checksum: =========================== -Detect data corruption during transmission -Resumable downloads (only after checksum match for each chunk, we mark that chunk as uploaded) -Deduplication before upload -Companies that do: Youtube, Google Drive, S3(optional), Dropbox Advantages of server-side checksum: ============================ -Verify storage integrity (to check disk corruption, large systems periodically check files) -Deduplication inside storage -Replication verification -Companies that do: Local file backup software, Dropbox, Google Drive, Youtube

• 
  2Do (@2DoApp) reported 2 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.

• 
  Anna Bubbly 🌺✨ (@AnnaBubblyMV) reported 3 minutes ago

  Is uploading on Clips4Sale not working for anyone else? I can only get it to work if I do it through Dropbox, the usual upload button isn’t working

• 
  Ihtesham Ali (@ihtesham2005) reported 3 minutes ago

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

• 
  Chase (@Chase_Commerce) reported 9 minutes ago

  the full $1 UGC video stack, every tool and every cost, top to bottom: layer 1: research tool: claude cost: a $20 subscription (or even free) it pulls the top performing UGC in your niche, breaks down the hooks and structure, and writes ready to film scripts. spread across hundreds of videos this rounds to pennies a clip. replaces: a creative strategist doing 3 hours a day layer 2: finding the winners to study tool: meta's ad library, free optional: atria or foreplay if you want the longest running ads surfaced faster cost: $0 to a small monthly fee you're looking for content that's been live for months, because longevity means it's making money. layer 3: filming tool: HourlyUGC cost: $25 to $35 an hour she films a clip every 30 to 60 seconds off a script, so 40+ clips a session. that's under a dollar a clip just to film. replaces: a $400 to $600 per video agency layer 4: editing tool: capcut, plus editors you hire directly cost: $3 to $7 an hour, 20 to 30 finished videos a shift adds a dollar or so per clip. the whole thing runs off one documented template so every editor produces identical output. layer 5: storage and handoff tool: google drive or dropbox cost: basically nothing creators upload raw footage, editors pull from it, finished clips go to a shared folder. that's the entire pipeline. total fully loaded: $1 to $3 a finished video, at whatever volume you staff for. nothing hidden in that number, and you own every clip outright instead of renting access to it. the stack is boring on purpose, and boring is why it scales.

• 
  Fernando (@Ferjsjdh) reported 11 minutes ago

  @MaxMillerOH You're retarded, you are giving away the race because of your pride and now you think some dropbox with text messages will fix it.

• 
  Abhishek Singh (@0xlelouch_) reported 14 minutes ago

  System design question. How would you design Dropbox file sync with conflict handling? Constraints to make it real: 1) Same file edited on 2 devices while offline for 3 days, then both reconnect 2) Large files (2GB). Need chunking, resume, and content-hash dedupe 3) Renames/moves vs edits should not explode into full re-uploads 4) At-least-once change events from clients, out of order, with retries 5) Server must support 10M files per user without scanning the whole tree 6) Conflict UX: when do you auto-merge (text) vs create conflicted copies (binary)? 7) Cross-region sync, eventual consistency, and p95 sync latency < 5s for small edits [generated using my AI agent, hope this was useful]

• 
  Abdullah (@abdinmotion) reported 17 minutes ago

  One video. $48 million in revenue. No ads spent. That's the Dropbox story and most product teams still haven't learned from it. Here's what actually happened: Dropbox had a technically brilliant product that no one understood. Instead of adding more features, they made a 2-minute video that showed *exactly* what the product did. Simple. Specific. Human. Signups went up 10% overnight. Big companies spend millions refining their product. Then they describe it in six bullet points on a landing page and wonder why the sales cycle takes forever. The product video isn't marketing. It's compression. It compresses trust, clarity, and desire into 90 seconds. If a user can't understand your product in a video, the product isn't the problem. The story is. When was the last time you watched your own product video as if you were a first-time user?

• 
  Jordan (@GoodLordJord) reported 18 minutes ago

  @SmugFecundity @techsaleshackz One million paying customers narrows it down to only a handful of saas companies in the world. Something with that many customers is obviously mature and has a ton of smb business. Probably something like docusign or dropbox which I could totally see a 50 yo doing ok at.

• 
  IT Guy (@T3chFalcon) reported 18 minutes ago

  The code itself is just a pattern that encodes a URL. it's not dangerous. what it points to might be. The attack is called: Quishing. QR code phishing. It works so well because can't see where a QR code goes before you scan it. A phishing link in an email is visible, people have been trained to hover before clicking. A QR code gives you nothing to hover over. you scan and you're already there. And security tools are mostly blind to it. email filters scan text and URLs but a QR code is an image. 12% of all phishing attacks now use QR codes specifically because they bypass email security gateways that weren't built to read images. In 2026 — Stickers are being placed over legitimate QR codes at parking meters, EV charging stations, and restaurants; your payment goes to the attacker. — QR codes in emails leading to fake Microsoft 365 or bank login pages. 83% of malicious Microsoft 365 documents now contain QR codes instead of links. — multi-stage attacks: QR code leads to a Dropbox or Notion link that looks legitimate, which then loads the phishing page. — fake address bars on mobile called Browser-in-the-Browser. The padlock shows, the URL also looks right but it's a fake overlay on a small screen you can't scrutinize. QR code phishing attacks increased fivefold in 2025 alone. The FBI also issued a public advisory.

• 
  Rashad Bayram (@bayrashad) reported 18 minutes ago

  Here's the stack I keep finding when I talk to tax firms: → Intake forms in JotForm or Google Forms → Signatures in DocuSign or PandaDoc → Reminders in Mailchimp, email, text messages → Document tracking in a Google Sheet, excel, crm → Client files scattered across email, Google Drive, dropbox, local hard drive Five tools, five logins, five places for something to fall through. None of them talk to each other, so the accountant becomes the integration. manually copying status from one to the next. It's not that any single tool is bad. It's that the seams between them are where the time goes. The fix isn't a sixth tool. It's removing four of them. How many tools are in your tax-season stack right now?

• 
  ṢƘĪÑlÖVẸ́R̃ṢX🇺🇲🌷 (@skinloversx) reported 19 minutes ago

  Hey Daddy I'm down for FaceTime 💧 Dropbox and all kind of nasty content message me for menu 💦💦 #md

• 
  RyanFox.eth (@ryanfoxeth) reported 20 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.

• 
  yera. (@1stplaceee__) reported 21 minutes ago

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