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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!
River - You clearly have not read nor do you care about the concerns of Dropbox users. Dropbox has simply become untrustworthy. Public folder links were the cornerstone of Dropbox and you have decided to bulk-delete all of these links because you wrongly believe they are inferior or replaced by the new sharing feature. You are wrong for numerous reasons outlined by this thread - which have been either not responded to, or poorly explained by super users acting mindlessly to protect Dropbox's image.
You have not just broken links, you have broken the trust of the community. This is by far the worst decision Dropbox has done. Updating these links is simply not possible in numerous situations which have been outlined in this thread. Hundreds of thousands of links and images will now no longer be functional around the internet. This is ridiculous.
Dropbox's response to this issue has been extremely poor and typical. Dropbox genuinely believes it can directly harm its community and not suffer the consequences. For people still here - read this as a warning. What will come next? Systematically deleting .mp4 files in peoples Dropbox? Invalidating the 'new' shared links? You simply can not longer be trusted. I am moving to another service. Goodbye.
