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wowtah
8 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Bring back the green 'synced' checkmark in the system tray.
In my Windows system tray (next to the clock), Dropbox used to show that it was fully synced by showing a green check-mark over the Dropbox icon. This was really helpfull.
If Dropbox was offline, ...
David S.178
3 years agoCollaborator | Level 9
"What good are the suggestions when they still say "not for right now", when this is SECOND-HIGHEST VOTED USER FEATURE on the whole site, having been asked for for what, four years now?!"
When I went to school for computer science, in 1971, we learned to put bug fixing at top priority, and to engage in a development process that identified bugs early and that also avoided bugs as far as was practical. And we learned to design and use software tools to avoid bugs, such as Smart Pointers in C++ and Assertions. And in my 40-year software career, while I rarely had bugs in my own released code, I always put bug fixing and simple improvements of existing software at top priority. I never had significant problems achieving milestones in a timely way, even with this priority.
But many software companies, like Dropbox, have yet to learn the enormous value to customers that results from putting priority on software maintenance. Today, it seems that management is ignorant of the fundamentals of software development, so that engineers are overworked designing completely new software, filled with fancy features, that has a large risk of failing and never being released, while simple product improvements are ignored, all in the ignorant belief that this is the only way that software development can be done.
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