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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!
Over 5 years I have worked with the public links in Dropbox and praised them for it to everyone I knew.
Now they tell me I have to change over 25000 links .....
How on earth am I going to do that ?
And much more, what happens in the mean time ?
September 1, that's the date the axe is going to fall .... yeah, right, so what do I do in the mean time then ?
Asking support doesnt bring any answers. I'm left in the dark here with only an execution of my work in the near future.
Sure, I can still create stuff and set out public links, but what is the use of working with Dropbox now ?
I wish someone could help me here, for I am lost and feeling **bleep** crappy about it.
Hugs to you all !
If Dropbox does not change its current path of killing all Public folders / Public links and goes forward with that ridiculous plan, I will review my other cloud options. I am already paying for Office 365 so I already got an almost illimited (1000 GB!) Onedrive at no additional cost... why should I stick with Dropbox if they start killing all of their most useful features one by one?
I would also like to point out if Dropbox goes forward and keeps shooting themselves in the foot, I will stop recommending Dropbox to friends and family and move to other options like Onedrive.
Dropbox, please reconsider: your reputation, your revenue, your business and your users are at stake here. Do you seriously expect to be successful on the stock markets when millions of users complain about you killing off the best feature of your only product? How good does that sound for future revenue?
hey Dropbox-Team
thanks for that step. I moved now to my own hosted cloud-storage on my NAS.
I have full control what get's shared and whats not and almost unlimited space.
It's very hard to understand why you've choosen that step and why are you not even trying to explain.
Good bye!
I've moved my business from dropbox public links to another provider that supports the same as public links, so dropbox please... do what that manager who thinks is good, but don't be surprised of less and less users use dropbox...
WHO IS THE OTHER PROVIDER THAT SUPPORTS PUBLIC LINKS??
Please, do tell us because then we can all
1) move away from Dropbox and
2) blog / share widely who this other provider is.
