Would you say that the install and maintenance load for both systems (Dropbox vs packages containers) is the same?
Like, I'm confident my tech illiterate parents could get drop box running. Ease of use and UX are features.
I'm not saying the self hosted stack is bad, and in fact it's probably better in many ways. But it doesn't have the same feature set if you consider usability a feature, imo.
I can install drop box in under ten minutes. I don't have to manage security patches for all the binaries in the stack. My data is available in network edge locations close to me or the people I share it with. I can turn dollars into more storage very easily. I don't have to configure user permissions and groups in more than one place.
Also, what you described is not "sftp + cvs + vps" ;D
Yep. But if your user base is likely to include Americans, then you might want to consider filtering them out. (As it could be shocking to read.)
Note the word consider, by the way. I'm not demanding anything here, I'm saying the author should make a deliberate choice about their inclusion rather than including them just because they were auto generated.
Like, I'm confident my tech illiterate parents could get drop box running. Ease of use and UX are features.
I'm not saying the self hosted stack is bad, and in fact it's probably better in many ways. But it doesn't have the same feature set if you consider usability a feature, imo.