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ae2rigc's avatar
ae2rigc
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Ending support of public folder

Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.   --------- As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    8 years ago
    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!
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Dolphinuser67
Helpful | Level 5

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?

verstaerker's avatar
verstaerker
Helpful | Level 5
8 years ago

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! 

  • kiaz h.'s avatar
    kiaz h.
    Helpful | Level 6
    8 years ago

    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...

    • Chris R.'s avatar
      Chris R.
      Collaborator | Level 10
      8 years ago

      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.

      • Albert_Sieben's avatar
        Albert_Sieben
        New member | Level 2
        8 years ago

        I went to Piwigo.com, they support public links as well... good luck everyone !

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