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!
Maybe instead of killing the links to files in the public folder you ad small ads on them and make money off them ? That way they could pay for your hosting of them and millions of websites don't lose valuable content.
They already have customers paying for their service. Even if it was possible to put ads on public, direct links (it's not) it'd look terrible in every way possible. Not even companies looking to advertise would want it, because with no way of controlling the content or where it's posted, they could end up being associated with literally anything. Ads has no place in this at all.
