splish

a whiteboard, a moleskine notebook

for scribbles I haven't found an adequate app replacement for either of these.

Confirmed on the forums and status site.

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=35092

http://status.dropbox.com/

I'm a relatively new user (past few months) but do they usually send out any notice on downtime?

Duplicate. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2350414

Agreed, there is no source link. There is 1 link to the "story" on macrumors and another to the forum discussion.

Why not have the actual (and more useful) link:

http://discover.twitter.com/

Not sure of the implentation details, but hopefully you're sending out different ideas to some degree per week/user. Depending on the ultimate success of the site, some might notice the use of some external force in 'suddenly thoughtful significant other'

"Bob gave you flowers last wednesday? and a card on Monday? Frank did the EXACT same thing!" (etc.)

Fwiw, I didn't even know there were ads on the site with adblock on.

A bit of a blackbox from a user's perspective about what it will be they would be receiving beyond "it will be an email" and "it will have an idea".

From the stance of someone who may have just entered their email, before doing so it would be helpful to see an example of what it is we're getting ourselves into.

The pitch is too easily misconstrued to "every few weeks we'll ask you to buy something from one of our advertisers, so please sign up".

Perhaps a friendly use case/sample would be helpful here.