From Hive's terms:
"Hive reserves the right to terminate Free Accounts at any time, with or without notice. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if a Free Account is inactive for ninety (90) days, then Hive may delete any or all of Your Files without providing additional notice."
There are many services that I don't access that often. Especially if I am using it for storage and archival. So having stuff deleted without notice equates to "unreliable" to me.
Seems too good to be true. And it's the kind of service that you need to depend on. Don't wanna start using it to find they disappear one day. Would rather pay $10/month to know that it's going to be around for a long long time.
@ryandawidjan Hive licenses media encoding APIs from QVIVO (http://www.qvivo.com/). I highly recommend them if you are thinking about building a cloud service that deals with media files.
We're a separate company however. I'll ask Liam to jump on and chat.
@lehartel Hi Thierry, thanks for jumping on here :)
I like the design and how easy it is to get started.
I love the unlimited cloud storage.
As of late I have been keen on questioning privacy policies for cloud solutions, so I encourage @lehartel and team to be very open about their privacy policy and where they stand relative to Dropbox. I saw @McCroden's comment and maybe it's a bit extreme to get into those details with your standard user, but totally worth it in the long haul.
Their promise seems ambitious, the app has a really nice design so I think it worths trying it out. I'm already adding some files in for testing purposes!
My beta link invite if anyone wants to try it out too: https://beta.hive.im/join/527/
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