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So they created a new Pro plan:

https://www.dropbox.com/plans/individual?trigger=nr

Recently, they renamed the old Pro plan to Plus. This sucks quite a bit for long-time users, since they are only adding new features (smart sync, full content search) to the new Pro plan.

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Yeah, I bet they peg the average "storage" per customer around 300GB. People are forced to manage the space on their HDD and not simply dump everything to Dropbox. If everyone used the 1TB... I imagine Dropbox wouldn't look the same pricing wise and/or have some serious heart ache about it.

Like over provisioning in the VPS space... maybe, I don't know for sure, just throwing this out there food for thought.

I got my Classic Dropbox account upped to around 300GB for life because I answered a question at a conference. I haven't exceeded it for the last seven years or so.

PyCon by chance?

No, Reflections projections at U of I.

that's why they don't allow to combine multiple locations/folders for sync(there is a workaround with symbolic links but it's a hack).

Yes. It's the whole idea of upselling to a higher value plan. Upselling from a plan that frankly the majority of it's customers don't need already (who fills 1 TB? I bet many would prefer to have a 100MB, 200MB, 500MB plan for less). $20/month to sync files to the cloud?

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