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!
I have a published e-book that has over a hundred public links to photos and docs. That book is screwed. Would have been nice knowing this was to happen before I spent hours writing the book.
drubble a écrit :I have a published e-book that has over a hundred public links to photos and docs. That book is screwed. Would have been nice knowing this was to happen before I spent hours writing the book.
Not screwed yet ... but will be :cry:
Another vote for keeping the feature or at least grandfathering the old links.
Adding my voice to this: Cutting public folders is a terrible move. The public folder feature is literally the last feature Dropbox has keeping me on their service. Nearly every other cloud file hosting/sharing/syncing provider out there provides more storage for less cost, and are nearly feature-complete compared to Dropbox.
Please reconsider removing this feature.
