Dropbox 2048

[isamuel]

This is a great demonstration of a feature I didn't know existed—using Dropbox to save application-level data. I'm sure I'm just behind the curve, but there are probably a lot of us back here. Nice move, DB.

[diafygi]

There's a few projects around the idea of not requiring a dynamic backend for webapps. The general term is "unhosted" (unhosted.org), and it mostly started as a reaction to the we-have-your-data-and-can-use-it-however-we-want websites. RemoteStorage.io is probably the most mature unhosted library, and there's a few other services listed on unhosted.org that are being actively working on.

I got attracted to this idea because it offers several security advantages. I've been working on a minimalistic javascript library (byoFS.com) that allows you to connect a Dropbox/Google Drive/etc. account and write automatically encrypted data to it. I tied for 2nd place at a recent privacy hackathon for making an encrypted chat application using only Dropbox accounts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTPimUSIWbI

[pacofvf]

I was wondering why this wasn't working, I have DB blocked at my office. Actually I don't have blocked their datacenter's IPs, I've only have blocked dropbox.com domain, if the JS library was in another domain it would work for me..

[izzydata]

I'm not particularly informed on this, but what makes this different then just hosting a text file and reading the text file? I wouldn't imagine anything needs to be specialized for this.

[werid]

You can do it via Android apps too, not sure about iOS.

[frade33]

keeping them coming, as I just started collecting all of these 2048 things here. http://2048.nerdspace.co/ it would be completed in a day or two, few are already listed.

[erichurkman]

Don't forget 2048 Numberwang: http://louhuang.com/2048-numberwang/

[ihuman]

What software did you use to record your screen? It looks like you're using a Mac, and all the ones I find are only for Windows.

[raimondious]

http://rudradevbasak.github.io/16384_hex/

[cube_yellow]

If you don't know already, /r/2048 exists.

[jackhammons]

Nice job, I actually prefer this colour scheme to the original.

[rbonvall]

Nice demonstration of a simple feature. 2048 could become the new TodoMVC (http://todomvc.com/).

[Xlythe]

Logging in to Dropbox kicked me out of my game, losing my progress. Is it possible to open the confirmation in a separate window or tab?

[quasque]

That's interesting, does anyone know from where in the Dropbox user interface such datastores and their contents can be accessed?

[smarx]

The blog post (https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/82/dropbox-2048-save...) links to it. Here's the direct link to see your datastores: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/apps/datastores.

[andrewchoi]

Somehow the blue is more soothing than the yellow/red that the original had.

[nathell]

And so we have 2048 with a corporate touch to it. What next? Microsoft(R) 2048(TM)? Apple i2048?