Is there a way to disable the notifications about onboarding to a Dropbox team?

Question

At the bottom left of the Dropbox web UI there is a notification urging me to "Get started with Dropbox" by doing various things. I also received an email message from Dropbox saying "You have pending action items", which I assume will recur as long as that's the case.

I do not want to do those things. Not because I am lazy (though I am) or because I don't need to do them (which I don't) but because they are all things that will disturb other team members. I'm pretty sure that if I upload something to a team folder then everyone else who has that folder on their machine will get a notification. Likewise if I make a new team folder. Doubly so if I explicitly share something with one of them.

Dropbox is trying to force me to annoy my coworkers.

Is there, please, some way to make this thing go away?

Jay · Answer

Thanks for the reply, We appreciate your feedback regarding the onboarding notifications.

We take all comments into consideration when improving the Dropbox interface and apps.

If you have any further feedback, feel free to message back.

gjm_cic · Answer

Unfortunately I can no longer take a screenshot showing the notifications because I gave in and did the Annoying Things. However, I am 99.9% confident that this is just the standard Dropbox onboarding thing so anyone who has seen that (which should be approximately all Dropbox users) has seen the thing I am complaining about.

(But, to be clear, my complaint isn't that it's there but that there is no way of bypassing it. It's reasonable to encourage possibly-new users to try things out! It is very much not reasonable to require every user to take actions that will inconvenience their teammates even if they already know how to do those things and don't need to be led through them.)

And: no, there is not (at least for me) any option to disable or quit the thing. That's exactly the problem.

Jay · Answer

Hi @gjm_cic, thanks for posting today.

Could you attach a screenshot showing the notifications you're receiving on the website?

Is there no option to disable or quit the onboarding notification?

Any other info would be helpful!