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.
Forum Discussion
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!
This is super bad news for me as it breaks my podcast archive, very disappointed particularly since I'm not just using Dropbox for free but have a paid account. I don't make money off my podcast, rather I pay to make it and store it and this is a huge hassle.
- Yeah, this is going to break all of the links to images I posted on forums. Since this was the primary use case for my Dropbox, I'll probably be cancelling my pro sub and reducing my usage to things that fit within the free tier. I can get by with Google Photos anyway.
- I use this feature to update documents on my corp website without having to continually work in the cms. Just save the new revision over the old file in the public folder and move on. Reconsider this change... The public folder is a key component for me.
My company has long used the Public folder for sending links to clients at the end of a job, so they can permanently access the work we've done for them.. We actually replaced our old public client fileserver with this functionality.
And now all of those past links are going to break? This is the opposite of professional.
If you trash all of our old client-disbursed links so we have to recontact them all one-at-a-time (how embarassing..) why should we as a company stick with you? We already use Google Drive for sharing some projects as it's cheaper per user - but have kept Dropbox on for this feature and because we actually like you guys!
You are destroying customer loyalty with this move, not to mention having a huge effect on forum archives across the net. I urge you to reconsider.
