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ae2rigc
8 years agoNew member | Level 2
Ending support of public folder
Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.
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As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
- 8 years agoLGM - the issue is that people are abusing it and causing issues for everybody by getting the Dropbox domains blacklisted which cause emails to fail and downloads to be blocked by firewalls etc.
In terms of changing the extension, sorry, no idea how you would do that!
abela
Explorer | Level 4
Vast majority of comments here seem to be along the lines of "i have posted links to images/videos on forums and now they will break."
So, basically Dropbox does not want to be everybodies CDN anymore.
Elizabeth G.10
8 years agoHelpful | Level 5
abela wrote:Vast majority of comments here seem to be along the lines of "i have posted links to images/videos on forums and now they will break."
So, basically Dropbox does not want to be everybodies CDN anymore.
But that's what I'm paying them for; It is a sharing and collaboration tool. Is it not?
If it was just for file backups, I would be using backblaze at half the cost and unlimited storage.
- draeath8 years agoNew member | Level 2
This functionality was and is the only reason I use Dropbox. If your intent was to push people away, congratulations.
I'm off to go buid my own Seafile server now, thanks, where I control the whole thing. I think I'd have been better off tossing things up on S3 instead, all these years.
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