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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 I fear is disasterous news for anyone (like me) who has used the public folder links to post images on web forums.
Web forum software, it seems when using the [img]....[/img] codes , accepts the "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com......." format of current public folder links , but rejects the "https://www.dropbox.com......" format of current links from any other folder.
This means the horrible prospect of not only the loss of many years of input across multi forums (with the upcoming negation of 'old' links to the Public Folder) but the need to seek out alternate on-line storage for the future!
I am in exact same position as narikka having used drop box for years using links for photos on review forums. No way can i waste the rest of my life redoing all the links to photos. Cheers dropbox you just screwed up about 5 years worth of post + reviews for no real reason.
Not at all happy you seriously need a rethink on this :-(
Well thank you Dropbox for changing the rules after the game started. It looks like come September 2017 I'll be dropping Dropbox since you no longer will let me have the Public Folder I signed up for when I subscribed many years ago. I have years of public links in thousands of posts to dozens of web forums that link to pictures and short videos in my public folder. With one broad arbitrary decission, and without asking your paying custoers how it will effect them, you've negated my only reason for being a Dropbox customer. And you have not provided any workable option for myself and the others on this forum who you have placed in the same boat. I can't begin to describe how angry I am right now for this brain dead decision you have forced down our throats.
Same here - we have 100s of links thoughout a few websites to content on Dropbox in the Public folder. Can you PLEASE not remove the public folder? Or at least let the existing links still function?
This could takes hours and hours of work, and we'd still leave some holes. Please Dropbox, reconsider or find another solution!
This is an awful stain on Droobox, I agree with the other posts, I have hundreds maybe thousands of links to the public folder. And customers, suppliers andcollaborators pass them on.
This is a good reason not to use cloud storage for professional people. Its ok as a toy for amateurs.
I need to control my business. It is not right that a cloud supplier should control my business by making arbitrary changes.
Do droobox realise the financial consequencies of this move on customers?? Our data is valuable to us. It is a terrible indictment on dropbox business values (or lack of)
- Let's get organized and cancel these subscriptions
- One of the main reasons I subscribed to Dropbox was the easy use of public folder. I will be canceling my subscription to Dropbox if this decision is not changed.
- We're trying (perhaps in vain) to get Dropbox to take notice.... Like our page and help us get them message to dropbox that as paying customers, we do not want to lose the Public Folder! :triumph:
https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/
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We're trying (perhaps in vain) to get Dropbox to take notice.... Like our page and help us get them message to dropbox that as paying customers, we do not want to lose the Public Folder! :triumph:
https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/Plan of campaign:
1. "Like" the Facebook page above
2. Raise a ticket with Dropbox Customer "Support" about the Public folder
3. If you have a blog, write about this ridiculous 'breaking' of bits of the whole internet (broken links)
4. Be satirical and mocking - refer everywhere to "Dripbox" (or if you have better name, share it with us :) )
5. If you're a paid user and use the Public folder a lot, cancel your subscription - there are alternatives out there!
6. Don't stop campaigning until we either win, or cause Dripbox no end of hassle, embarrassment and notoriety
Can we do it? Yes we can!
- I have used DB public to share reading materials with students in the school via links on the school website: this is a decision that makes DB pretty well useless for us.
As already indicated by so many others, this is an absolute desaster.
We spend 4 years making 100s of documents with 1000s of internal and external links. Whenever a user reads something of his interest, he just has to click on the word and the relevant document will open. We even dare to say no website is needed anymore.
We already send a request to the support team but the only answer we got was an "auto-reply" which looks at first glance sympathic and constructive but basically is the exact opposite.
Although we don't used normally the word "begging" in our vocabulary, we actually begged the Dropbox-team to reconsider and keep the public folder as it is, at least for the actual users. Make it eventually impossible to use it by someone who's thinking starting doning so in the future. I would like to repait here this scream for common sence and understanding!!
If not, it'll take us months of work to recreate and rewrite everything. I'm convinced many other, up to now very loyal, users will have the same gigantic problem. Once again, do NOT implement this dramatic action!!
Best regards,
Guido
- I AGREE!
Think it twice. It's suicide. Same thing for me! And worst! The new URL created the new way don't even work with my signage display! So I cannot use Dropbox anymore! :-(((
Agree completely with others.
Countless image posts in forums that I have no way of retracing, and even if I did I wouldn't have time to replace them all. Crap as hell Dropbox is this why I pay so much for storage?!And as a pro user I only just noticed the email, leaving me a month or two to decide what to do simply because dropbox send emails everyday when someone alters a file somehwere!
Why would they take this step unilaterally and not give the option to keep it open for older users? This is #ageist (that's a joke but I'm pissed off about this I have hunderds of image links on forums where images aren't allowed, like The Conversation (science/acedemic discussion site). Really a dumb move, someone suggested they get ads by using shared links, I'm yet to confirm that but something stupid must have moticated this decission.
