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Cake day: August 2nd, 2024

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  • After paying $720/yr, then $840, then being told it would be over $900 this year, I wasn’t really happy about the cost of using Dropbox. But it’s been rock solid for many years and was heavily integrated into my company’s workflow, so I smiled and bent over.

    Until they took away the unlimited storage. I was using 31TB, and they wanted to put me at 15TB with no option to upgrade even if I wanted to.

    I already had an on-site NAS, so I bought another for $3k (with drives) and asked a family member in another state to house it. I’m using Resilio to sync everything. It’s been backing up for a couple of months and probably has a couple more to go. So far I’m happy with the decision.

    I have to imagine I’m not the only one making this move. Even if they fix the problem, I’m not going back. It’s far cheaper to keep a customer than to win a new one. Hopefully they learn their lesson.










  • I’ve been an Airmail (Mac) user for many years now. But it’s been really buggy lately and there’s no motivation to fix the issues apparently. So I switched to Thunderbird about a month ago after a lot of research. It’s … ok.

    • Search is great.
    • Seeing stats/charts on my last 20 years of emails is super interesting.
    • Composing emails is not great, but I use a markdown plugin that makes it better … but it’s still pretty bad UX.
    • I hate the way it quotes previous emails with “>” for each line instead of an indented block quote. Maybe I’m missing the setting to turn that off.
    • I miss having an avatar/icon for each sender. It let me quickly visually scan my inbox for the person I want to talk to instead of parsing through all the text.
    • The spacing of elements in certain places is weird and inconsistent. In places where it’s too tight it feels cramped and bothers me.
    • You can’t compose a reply inline. You just have to use a floating window on top of the rest of the app.
    • I miss the one-key shortcuts to label and archive emails. This was originally a GMail feature and Airmail also implemented it.
    • Sending an email doesn’t happen in the background. You have to stare at a progress bar modal while it sends, and it seems to take forever. I just want to move on to my next email but I’m stuck waiting.
    • The tabbed interface is really nice. It’s definitely an underrated feature.
    • I wish it had super advanced rules like you get with MailMate. But what it offers is fine for 99% of users.

    Again, I might be missing some settings to correct some of these issues, so take it all with a grain of salt. But these are my takeaways after about a month of usage.