Circling Back To Dropbox Spaces
How is the beta test proceeding?
In November 2020, I wrote about the early beta for Dropbox Spaces in First Look | The New Dropbox Spaces, where I did not have access to the beta but just descriptive materials that Dropbox provided. I was limited to an earlier take on Spaces, which was more or less what Dropbox folders have now become: a collection of files with an optional description area at the top.
As I wrote at the time
This version of Dropbox Spaces does not seem like an evolution of the earlier Dropbox Spaces. It’s a radical break.
The New Dropbox Spaces
Some minor changes confused me before I even got started. Navigation to Spaces and other tools (like HelloSign) was planned to be in the left-hand margin, but is now accessed by a launchpad at the top of the screen:
Selecting Spaces brings me to a new, astonishingly sparse landing page (surely some metadata about the Spaces could be shown profitably?):
