You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
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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...
- LGM - 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!
As a teacher over the last 6+ years I have been a paying customer of Dropbox utilizing the public folder HEAVILY with links in my school's LMS. I simply can't believe with one action Dropbox is going to wipe all those years worth of links away. I RELY on the public folder feature. This is not the way to do business with your long-time paying customers. If I am forced to upgrade all my links in my LMS you can bet it won't be through Dropbox. The school offers all teachers onedrive for free, which I loath, but at least I won't have to pay for the feature of being noodled over by execs that don't ask their users how a change like this will affect them.
Public folders are why I've been a Dropbox customer since it's beta days. I'm a paying customer, too, and do not abuse the service.
So, okay, what alternatives exist? Must I spin up my own Apache server again? I've much preferred Dropbox for my purposes for convenience and quick updates from any of my devices. Box doesn't offer anything similar... where else should I look? Seems Dropbox will be losing me if they go this direction.
So, okay, what alternatives exist? Must I spin up my own Apache server again? I've much preferred Dropbox for my purposes for convenience and quick updates from any of my devices. Box doesn't offer anything similar... where else should I look? Seems Dropbox will be losing me if they go this direction.
- Yeah, I'll be taking my files elsewhere too.
The public folder is the sole reason I even have Dropbox in the first place. I use zero of its other features. Heck, I couldn't even tell you if it has other features, or what they would be. Had to visit the Help pages to even figure out what "links" were. Unfortunately, after trying it out, I can confidently say that the "links" feature is not a replacement, in contrast to what Dropbox claims - it's just a way to trick the userbase into sending other people unsolicited advertising.
Well, at least we got advance warning. Plenty of time to find an alternative.
Sorry, Dropbox. I had a good time with you for many years. But by killing all my externally linked content in one fell swoop, you might as well have deleted my account. That would have had the same effect. So don't be cross if I do the honors instead.- Thank you so much, Dropbox, for messing up all of my photo links by killing the public folder. Your move to "improve the Dropbox sharing experience" is whimsical at best. If you're reading this, you can see there are 16 pages of posts indicating this is not an improvement to the Dropbox sharing experience.
"create new links for all your files"
Yeah, how the f*** should I know what, where and when I shared stuff from my Public folder 5 years ago? They don't even show up in the "shared links" section on the Dropbox website so I can't even check what I shared...
I'm not paying 100 bucks a year for you guys to change a function that's critical to the stuff I do, if you remove that feature I'm forced to go to another cloud storage hoster.
- What a shame. Looks like I'll have to start migrating everything to another service which is going to eat up a tremendous chunk of my time. Thanks for bringing something so great only to take it away a few years later.
Pretty sure spideroak will let you
