One year of cloud backup........ Seriously??
One of the big reasons why I have Synology stuff is to stay away from clouds and build my own cloud!
At the checkout of supermarkets I regularly get vouchers for stuff I don't want to buy, but I don't pull a strop about it. This wasn't the winner of the competition, it was a freebie.
If I go into the high street chocolate shop and they ask if I'd like to try one I mostly decline, but what I don't do is moan and shout that they should've given me the £50 box.
My view is any of these Synology competitions that are 'write a piece about how our stuff helps you do ...' is a potential marketing exercise, so I don't enter.
BTW I didn't join up here because I'm anti-Synology and their products, just that their forum was starting to annoy me as I saw people needing help and there were very few responding (and I wasn't confident to advise without risk of data damage): probably isn't good for Synology for customers to see the questions going unanswered. Having said that, I'm still irked that they won't move the VPN Plus free licence from my
MR2200ac so it can be used with my meshed
RT2600ac, when they both are signed into the same Synology account. So I'm not blind to what they don't do or should do, but someone getting a free licence to try cloud backup as an unexpected gesture isn't something to get annoyed about.
My 2p.