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D Story's avatar
D Story
Helpful | Level 5
3 months ago

Is Paper still supported by Dropbox?

Hello dear community and moderators.

 

I'm writing to find out if I can continue to base my business workflows on Dropbox Paper.  It's a lovely, lovely product, and my business has spent $1000s of dollars with Dropbox over the years instead of your competitors, ENTIRELY because of Dropbox Paper.

 

Unfortunately, getting even 100% reproducible bugs fixed, let alone trickier ones, is an exercise in futility.

 

I've had incident 23468323 open since March 17th, which is about 5.5 months ago.  The bug is 100% reproducible, and I'll include a screenshot of it below.

 

I've received stock responses from support for 5.5 months now, and they all say exactly this:

 

"Currently there is no ETA.  Once I have an update from our engineers I will reach out back to you."

 

I've asked for escalation over the months, and receive this response:

 

"Your case is already being investigated by our engineers.  It cannot be escalated to a higher level."

 

If this basic functionality of the app broke >6 months ago, and it is 100% reproducible, then how can it take 5.5 months with zero updates?

 

As a paying customer, I find this unacceptable.   My assumption at this point is that Paper is not being supported by engineers who can fix broken functionality.

 

Is Paper supported by fix-capable engineering any more?

 

Dave

 

PS: Here is the bug, captured in a single image:

 

    • Jay's avatar
      Jay
      Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff

      Hi D Story, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

       

      As you've mentioned, this ticket was forwarded to the engineering team, so there isn't much else I can state on the progress of the report.

       

      Once there is an update to share, we would inform you on this matter.

      • D Story's avatar
        D Story
        Helpful | Level 5

        Hi Jay, thanks for chiming in, but you haven't added anything to the thread (and to the incident)

         

        How about an ETA on a fix for this regression?  5.5 months and counting, led me to the headline I put on this thread.

         

        Is there anyone on the team who is going to fix this?  Or should I, as Charlie Windsor implies, give up and find a new product that will get maintenance -- as in, actual bugfixes to reproducible core functionality issues?

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