In 2018 I bet my reputation and self-worth on a huge crowdfunded game design project.
It could have been a failure for many reasons, but the one I became most worried about was losing all of the work that was stored locally on my home-built PC - a scenario that would have left a lot of people very upset and placed me in deep trouble.
I wasn't irresponsible, I had local backups, but at some point I found myself in custody of so many important files that it scared me.
And no matter how many redundancies I could build at home, they'd all still be in the same place - a risky bet.
So I bought a subscription to Dropbox.
Years later, it's still one … Read the full story at The Verge.