Dropbox is now too hard to use.

I am not opposed to Dropbox expanding its mission. However, the CORE mission is now almost impossible to access and easily use. The idea that I now have to "learn Dropbox" is absurd. I am trying to run a business not "learn Dropbox". If I wish to use it as it originally functioned, I should have that option without having to "learn" Dropbox. Unfortunately when I open it, what I see is totally incomprehensible to me and rather than sit there and "learn Dropbox" I prefer to go about my business productively. It's become a total waste of time for me.

You're both right. Dropbox is much improved, and better than Google Drive/One Drive for many tasks, and it is also now too hard to use. Dropbox, like so many cloud apps, faces a set of dilemmas? How do you charge more,  and keep the VCs happy? How do you add features, to satisfy your most demanding customers (i.e., heaviest users)? And, how do you do all that and keep a broad base of users so all your activities scale? The answer usually is to try to scale or convert an app into a platform. The old dropbox was an app for one thing--trading or sharing files with friends and coworkers. Then, because dropbox actually resided two placess-the cloud and your hard drive--you could use it as a sort of backup, or a tool to make your files available to yourself wherever you wanted to work. But the money is in corporate licensing (always!) so Dropbox evolved to meet the needs of larger workgroups and administrators of those workgroups. Then, to escape the clutches of the desktop, it also enabled working on documents in the cloud.  And on and on it keeps metastasizing.

Some love these developments. Others hate them because they turn Dropbox from an intuitive, simple, file sharing app, into something much larger that one literally has to learn. And, frankly, people are sick of learning. I know I am, and I work in IT. Right now I've got a new thermostat, some medical devices for my wife, and a couple of new networking devices I need to learn either to run my home or my job.  I wear a Fitbit that I've never learned completely, too. All I use it for is counting steps and heart rate. I don't want to share, or compete with Fitbit friends, or turn my Fitbit into a platform, though no doubt that is what FitBit investors want. 

So essentially, this is a war between users who have simple needs and their three main enemies. These basic users want apps to do one thing simply and well, like share files.  The three enemies--corporate users who have large, growing needs for collaboration; power users who always want more for novelty or fear of being left out; and the company and its investors and venture capitalists, who want their tech products to turn into platforms so that they can monopolize a greater percentage of the users minutes per day, and charge accordingly--all need for the apps to grow, change, and improve on a steady schedule. Which frustrates the basic users.

I totally agree with ITConsultingAfrica 

Dropbox is easy for me and it is fully matching my personal and business needs. 

The new features and interface work great and having the option to work with so many other apps through Dropbox is the key. 

I always find resources online to address any technical difficulties or any questions that I have. 

I am a happy camper I must say! :dart:

Best you keep on using it then - bye

Casper, would you be willing to send me completely basic instructions on the use of dropbox? My dentist sent me a dropbox link of a CT scan. I downloaded dropbox. I have been unable to view the scan. When I send a viewing link to others, they are also unable to view. The instructions provided are a dead end & dropbox provides no support. 

THANKS!