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.
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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!
One thing you CAN do in future is get a 'shared type' link and change the final dl=0 to dl=1, and that can be embedded as a direct link in a forum that does not support images except externally hosted. I've tested this out, and it works ... for now.
But I'd like to add my voice to all those who are pleading with Dropbox to preserve all the existing links that have been posted to/from users' Public folders. If they don't - and such links must number in their millions - then a portion of the internet will be wiped out overnight as soon as Dropbox end their support.
But perhaps they just don't care? Well they should - direct links are their USP, and without them there is no reason why users shouldn't flock to OneDrive, Google Drive, or Amazon, and get more storage either free, or for their buck. 'Shared links' are NOT direct links, whatever Dropbox may claim.
I usually do this thing to my links:
original: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ivs7yolg36cc9lx/Costa%20Rican%20Frog.jpg?dl=0
modified: dl.dropbox.com/s/ivs7yolg36cc9lx/Costa%20Rican%20Frog.jpg?dl=0
and this is not from public folder but from photos folder. Will this kind of link stay after the change ?
There has already been 19 pages of complaints on this thread and I truly add my voice to those as I also have hundreds (if not thousands) of images on public forums that are impacted by this *** unilateral, unconcerted, short notice *** decision of the DB team !
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However, who does really think ***HERE*** that our (justified) complaints will be heard ?
I personaly doubt ...
A small hope remains but the more those guys (at DB) keep silent, the less likely they will change their mind, or at least adapt to something agreeable.
I am feeling so sorry but yet so resigned.
