“Nothing at all like the bloated app that Dropbox’s Mac client has grown into”

John Gruber at Daring Fireball penned a short eulogy for Maestral: As of today Maestral continues to work just fine. I don’t know when these certificates are expiring. And I don’t know what I’m going to do when they do. Dropbox enshittified its app – my friend joked once that Dropbox is a rare example of a company that pivoted away from a product-market fit – and it seems Apple’s API changes didn’t really help, either. Maestral stepped in to help restore the minimalistic, functional core of Dropbox – I believe Doctorow terms this “disenshittification” – but it was helmed by one person, Sam Schott, who has every right to move on to other things.#enshittification #software eulogies #third party fixes