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.
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 change does not " improve the Dropbox sharing experience" as Dropbox claims. It creates hours of unnecessary work for users like me who have used the shared folder to post images, apps and other files all over the web.
I now have to track down every place on the web where I have shared a file from my public folder and replace the link with a new one, if possible. Most forums do not allow posts to be edited after a day or two and many blogs do not allow comments to be edited at all. That means this change will create large numbers of broken Dropbox links all over the web. Broken links hurt the web experience for everyone. Broken dropbox.com links send the message that Dropbox is not a reliable place to share files.
A cardinal rule of web design is to not break links. Dropbox, please reconsider this decision and allow existing Public folder links to continue to work.
