New Dropbox Homepage

[tannerc]

Looks great, absolutely. My concern is why websites like this tend to "hide" or de-value the login link.

I regularly have to access the Dropbox website, but with every change they make the login button seems to get smaller and smaller. I get that they're a business and need new customers, but it feels like existing customers "just aren't that important."

[timdorr]

Because that's not the primary access point. You normally log in through the app. For cases where you want to use the website, the app provides you a link to it that automatically logs you in.

It's de-valued because the majority of people that see this page are looking to sign up, learn more about Dropbox, or download the app. This page is optimized for those common use cases.

[s0rce]

I think in the current iteration the login link is slightly more visible, at least closer to the sign-up button, then it was in the past.

[cpursley]

The download button is where the signin button should be. Having login in the upper righthand corner is a long seated UX pattern - there is very little logic to messing with it. Now every time I go to signin, I'm going to accidentally download dropbox.

This is going to confuse the hell out of non-technical people like my dad, a dropbox user, but not a very patient one. I'm sure I'll get a confused call from him in a few days... Plus, I'll have to go into his downloads folder several times a year to remove all the dropbox install files that were inadvertently downloaded.

[Cthulhu_]

I don't want to judge your dad, but does he actually read links before clicking them?

[josephjrobison]

Hopefully if someone knows how to read, they'll be smart enough to know not to click Download if they want to sign on. What makes them able to get away with the placement is that there are 11 words above the fold on the homepage, instead of thousands like on Yahoo, so it should be fine.

[zeitg3ist]

Note for "international" users (including myself): set English from the language chooser. Otherwise, it'll just show the (translated) old version. If you're logged in, you should also open the site in incognito mode (or log out, eh).

[loupeabody]

Looks great! Considering how the concept of a web + desktop app can confuse some less savvy users of the internet, these animations do a great job of conveying what Dropbox does. They're concise, expressive, and apparently very efficient in terms of performance. (frame data says the animations ran consistently ~60fps)

I haven't got the chance to see how the site looks on mobile, however. Anyone seen this on a phone or tablet?

[scrapcode]

On my S3 http://dropbox.com redirects to https://www.dropbox.com/login?display=desktop -- https://www.dropbox.com/?display=desktop, however, does display this new lander and it works just fine. Animations and everything. Looks great to me.

[ricardobeat]

I only noticed the animations after reading this comment... thought the screens were just blank.

[aviswanathan]

I'm sometimes a skeptic of flat design, but the flattened Dropbox icon looks awesome on the new site.

[loupeabody]

Not entirely flat design on the new homepage (the buttons have form), but the new wiki design[0] does seem almost entirely flat without bandwagoning. Confusingly, the old logo is still present in the new wiki.

[0]http://new.dropboxwiki.com/

[jessriedel]

Dropbox is very well aware of this idea. They have made the explicit decision not to go this route. If you want this feature you can implement it for yourself without much trouble:

http://www.dropboxwiki.com/Sync_Other_Folders

But you're not who dropbox cares about.

[xemoka]

Have you tried BitTorrent Sync? It doesn't have an always available web interface but does syncing between two (or more) online machine's directories quite well.. as long as they both have connectivity at the same time.

[joeblau]

Try bitsync for arbitrary directory syncing.

[adescragnolle]

SugarSync - https://www.SugarSync.com allows you to sync any folder you want

[post_break]

Instead of a home page I want to see a status page with actual updates that happen when an outage occurs. Dropbox has the worst response time of any host I know, and their reactions are lethargic at best. When my contract is up I'm moving to something else.

[ja27]

I know they're not quick to update it, but they do run a status page: http://status.dropbox.com/

And a twitter: https://twitter.com/DropboxOps

[flurian]

have you considered that maybe when dropbox SREs get paged they get busy fixing the site, not updating the status page?

[Justin_Time]

Great job! Small nitpick that's bothering me: The 'Sign up' & 'Download' text inside the bottom buttons is not vertically centered. (This is on Chrome 27.0.1453.110)

[namank]

Interesting. My question is why is this setup like a landing page of a pre-funding startup?

Or am I missing something?

[untog]

What do you mean by that, exactly? That it looks simple?

[nhangen]

This is nothing special. Just a few animations and sketched graphics.

Edit: curious why the downvotes? Usually we hold ourselves to high standards on this board. We bash all the little guys, but Dropbox doesn't have to be held accountable to inspiring design?

[cpr]

It's probably a coincidence, since they'd have to have started the redesign a while back, but I wonder if we'll start seeing a bunch of "super-sparse" design now that iOS7 is out.

[glomph]

"super-sparse" was a bandwagon joined by apple, not the other way around...