Some people have taken "as much space as you need" too literally.

Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits::Some people have taken “as much space as you need” too literally.

  • @foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    54•1 year ago

    I worked for a company that was offering unlimited storage to its too tier customers.

    I brought it up in a meeting when we first started talking about it.

    “Okay but you don’t mean unlimited. That’s bad PR waiting to happen.”

      • @foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        40•1 year ago

        Roughly

        “what do you mean?”

        “You cannot offer something that doesn’t exist. If Amazon decided to become a client, we’d be in a world of hurt.”

        “It’s fine none of our clients use more than a few hundred gigs”

        This was in 2018. They still offer unlimited storage. So I guess, what do I know?

          • @foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8•1 year ago

            A little over $150/mo

            Their service isn’t storage, has nothing to do with it. But at a certain level of storage, it’s… A steal.

        • IllecorsEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          May I ask what the company is? You don’t have to disclose it publicly if you don’t want, I have matrix setup on my profile here.

        • @spiderman@ani.socialEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          what would they do if some user just decides to use more than their “limit”? like hundreds of TB?

          • @T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8•1 year ago

            Boot them, most likely. Or eat the cost, and look to shutter the free space/apply limits ASAP.

            Not unlike Amazon Cloud, Google Drive, and Dropbox here. There was someone on the datahoarders Reddit who famously shoved a Petabyte of Data into their Cloud Drive offering, and likely contributed to it being shut down as a result.