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!
I have years of important documents, some legal, many published, that have hundreds of tinyurl links the 99% of which are to DropBox links to supporting references without which the documents are irreparably damaged.
Tinyurl guarantees the perminence of their links which gives me the confidence that future, past and present possessors of my literary and legal work product will still be able to click those links.
As you may know tinyurl links are customizable which facilitates easy identification. so even if I endeavored to repair spoiled links the new links would lose the * identity customized to be associated with them.
If Dropbox breaks those links they will cripple literally every document I have created since I first subscribed to DropBox.
Many people have in their possession souvenir items with Tinyurl/dropbox links which will be rendered inoperable if links are broken by dropbox. Example: http://tinyurl.com/JMad5G http://tinyurl.com/RiderSouvenir
Please open and examine for yourselves a few of hundreds of examples and please assure me that DropBox will not break and destroy the integrity of years of work product in its March transition.
I will begin creating and linking all new documents outside the Public folder, but even my new work product will frequently, if not always, refer to my extensive established dossier behind tinyurl's permanent links which are permanently and *unchangeably associated with established Public folder dropbox links.
Wayne Harropson
Examples:
http://tinyurl.com/EastEggEpiph
http://tinyurl.com/grtseal
http://tinyurl.com/HarropWrite
Just adding my disdain.
I'd like to be able to share a whole folder of .WAV files of something I recorded. Will I now have to make an individual link to each file? Way too much work!
I think DropBox is one of the cleanest, most user-friendly, and most well-functioning pieces of software ever developed for the PC. On average, I would guess that I have been sitting behind a keyboard for several hours a day for the last 20 or so years. It is rare that a program is as functional and streamlined as Dropbox.
With this post I am adding my voice to those who are displeased that this will no longer be completely true for DropBox. I am sure I will continue using and recommending your product, but I would be lying if I said I wasn't hugely discouraged by this change.
Finally, I think it would benefit your company more if you just told the truth about why you are nixing the Public folder. While I am sure the real reason might be harmful to your firm if disclosed, I doubt it can be any worse than the speculation and accusational environment you have created by being vague about it and hiding it behind corporate newspeak.
Grunker wrote:...I think it would benefit your company more if you just told the truth about why you are nixing the Public folder. While I am sure the real reason might be harmful to your firm if disclosed, I doubt it can be any worse than the speculation and accusational environment you have created by being vague about it and hiding it behind corporate newspeak.
Hear, hear. Why won't you tell us? What are you hiding? Why won't you protect the sections of the Internet that will die unless you do something so easy as preserve the links that are already out there?
