I wonder how the people who replied to that thread feel now?

I have seen "I was wrong then" posts over time.

I remember seeing that "4chan on HN" thread a few days back and they were ripping apart this Dropbox post.

What is so funny about it? I think the first reply is spot on.

In fact, one of the best things about Dropbox is that they worked very hard on removing any barriers, including making sure that it can be installed on a windows machine without requiring administrator privileges.

I am confident that a large percentage of their users would have been unable to use Dropbox had this issue not been addressed.