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!
So stupid, I have lots of images linked into forum posts with Dropbox using the public links. Now they're all going to 404. Not to mention a lot of obscure files I had left for download on forums like a custom gtx 970 bios, or a custom motherboard bios. It's impractical to find where I've made all those posts.
The one feature I liked most about Dropbox is going, I think Spideroak at least lets you still link direct files.
