Can someone explain how the discontinuation of Discovery is good for anyone?
The main reason for buying my My Cloud was so I could work directly off the drive and not have to waste time on the inconvenience of having to download and then reupload files. This feels like the laziest and most backward move any company could take. If I wanted to have to download and upload files I would have just used Google Drive or OneDrive.
I realize that if you are on the same network you can use Local Access, but I’m only on the same network half the time. It really seems like buy a normal external hard drive would have been the best way to go.
Good for Western Digital in that they have less areas to support and less attack surfaces for threat actors to exploit now that more apps can be eliminated. Of the 45 computer and IT companies in the Fortune 500, WDC is the only one with a consumer personal cloud hardware solution. This was clearly a poor business decision and a money losing proposition for Western Digital when all the other IT companies are going the way of software cloud subscription model for businesses and consumers.
There is always the webapp (browser) for using on the desktop and the mobile app for remote connection to the MCH. … Good luck trying to remotely access a USB HDD half way around the world through CGNAT with any reliability.
I guess they could rely on native technologies such as FileProvider API on macOS to integrate seamlessly into Finder or Windows Explorer… that would be a lovely addition to replace the cumbersome WD Discovery and KDFS.
It pretty much is just a brick now. I’m still using the web app version to still access those files since I have around 1 TB of data on it. Now instead of any real functionality and the convenience of being able to mount it like a hard drive, I’m now downloading what is needed and re-upload the file. The whole process is pretty cumbersome and the UI isn’t great, but just have to suffer with it until I find a better solution.
