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Comment by azhenley | Hacker News Reader

There is one major feature I wish it had... version comparison. I wrote about it a little bit ago:

"Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?" https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/whycanticomparefileversio...

I do also wish it didn't lock up my entire computer whenever I make a big change to Selective Sync. I talked to a Dropbox PM after my blog post got some traction and he seemed surprised that this is still an issue.

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I'm not totally informed on this subject, but I do know our sync team is hiring :)

As someone who's asked for that feature for 5+ years now from everyone I've met there, it doesn't seem like there's much interest internally at Dropbox to implement it. I know it can't be easy to do, but it's such a killer feature IMO that would totally revolutionize workflows.

I have wanted to build it, but a standalone tool (outside of Dropbox or another sync tool) would be really hard to integrate into workflows, I think.

Agreed. A long time ago, Perforce released a tool that they called Commons, it used OpenOffice under the covers to diff Office documents and display everything in a fairly easy to understand webUI. It wasn't perfect, but treating "documents as code" would scratch that itch that I've had with Dropbox since I've used it.

Just something I've learned to live without, at least for the foreseeable future.

https://github.com/vshih/CloudDiff works for text files. I don't know if it can be used for binary files, but it may be possible if you have an appropriate document diffing tool installed.

> Compare versions of your Dropbox or pCloud text files in-browser or with your configured diff tool.

I remember this post. It would definitely be a great feature.

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