When did "Show HN" threads became shark tank? Can people at least check and post about the tool itself instead of discussing CMake vs Ninja vs Meson?
From the 2007 announcement of Dropbox:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
""" 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. """
They tried to sell their 'get public URL' wrappers as the replacement for the functionality, but that only covered a tiny aspect (and OneDrive, Google Drive, etc already offered that stuff) - sharing photos - and even that was slower due to them wrapping the files in some sort of viewer instead of giving the raw file data like the public folder did, while using some sort of hash ID to identify the file instead of the actual filename (this was another convenience lost since with the public folder i could guess the URL to share without copy/pasting).
I never found anything as convenient as Dropbox's public folder while the rest of their offering wasn't anything i cared much about and even then by that time both Google and Microsoft's offers were better (and with Microsoft's available right out of the box in Windows).
They are also the only ones I know that have a Linux application.
That being said I don't pay for their premium service because it seems to expensive compared to OneDrive and Google Drive.
People tend to stick to familiar topics ... as shown in the next Meson comment turned to Python2-vs-Python3-compatibility in a whim.
Thanks for trying to improve the ecosystem around native code building tools. I appreciate it a lot.