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0 pointskevincox5y ago0 comments

"Running out" == "Doesn't want to give away for free"

I don't see any limits on Google Cloud Storage any time soon.

> Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days.

To be fair I would consider this a feature. This is how I expect trash to work. Someone takes it away on occasion.

> Google Docs to be counted as storage space

Oh, I missed this. I wonder how they are counting it? After all as a user you don't really have any insight on how much space a doc actually uses. I guess they are going to create some metric?

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ffpip5y ago

> "Running out" == "Doesn't want to give away for free"

All these limits were placed within the last few months. It's definitely a company wide policy to reduce load from free users

> I don't see any limits on Google Cloud Storage any time soon.

It's paid.

> Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days.

It used to be unlimited. Now it isn't. Which is what people expected.

> Oh, I missed this. I wonder how they are counting it? After all as a..

Not sure, but they might just add up the space taken by individual files? They previously excluded docs and it lead to hacks like these - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19907271

Closi5y ago

> It's definitely a company wide policy to reduce load from free users

I agree that it's a company wide policy, but I'm not so sure it's to reduce load. It might just be that they want more subscription revenue and to reduce their reliance on advertising, which has current antitrust issues circling around it.

kevincoxOP5y ago

> Not sure, but they might just add up the space taken by individual files?

My point is that there is no "file" for Google Docs. They are some rows in a database somewhere. Probably some update rows and the occasional snapshot proto.

I guess it is no less arbitrary than a MS Office file, but since you can see the file on your disk you know the intrinsic size.

I'm definitely not saying they should give away the storage for free. But it is an interesting problem for how to count this in a user-understandable way.

ffpip5y ago

>My point is that there is no "file" for Google Docs

They can add up the space shown beside the file name on Google Drive. Which is what users would expect

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google2341235y ago

Who throws things in a trash expecing to keep them forever?

ffpip5y ago

Have you never used the Windows Recycle Bin?

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0 pointskevincox5y ago0 comments

"Running out" == "Doesn't want to give away for free"

I don't see any limits on Google Cloud Storage any time soon.

> Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days.

To be fair I would consider this a feature. This is how I expect trash to work. Someone takes it away on occasion.

> Google Docs to be counted as storage space

Oh, I missed this. I wonder how they are counting it? After all as a user you don't really have any insight on how much space a doc actually uses. I guess they are going to create some metric?

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ffpip5y ago

> "Running out" == "Doesn't want to give away for free"

All these limits were placed within the last few months. It's definitely a company wide policy to reduce load from free users

> I don't see any limits on Google Cloud Storage any time soon.

It's paid.

> Google Drive to delete trash after 30 days.

It used to be unlimited. Now it isn't. Which is what people expected.

> Oh, I missed this. I wonder how they are counting it? After all as a..

Not sure, but they might just add up the space taken by individual files? They previously excluded docs and it lead to hacks like these - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19907271

Closi5y ago

> It's definitely a company wide policy to reduce load from free users

kevincoxOP5y ago

> Not sure, but they might just add up the space taken by individual files?

My point is that there is no "file" for Google Docs. They are some rows in a database somewhere. Probably some update rows and the occasional snapshot proto.

I guess it is no less arbitrary than a MS Office file, but since you can see the file on your disk you know the intrinsic size.

I'm definitely not saying they should give away the storage for free. But it is an interesting problem for how to count this in a user-understandable way.

ffpip5y ago

>My point is that there is no "file" for Google Docs

They can add up the space shown beside the file name on Google Drive. Which is what users would expect

1 more reply

google2341235y ago

Who throws things in a trash expecing to keep them forever?

ffpip5y ago

Have you never used the Windows Recycle Bin?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse