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!
They are not warning "some", they are warning everyone who uses Dropbox. If they choose to not read their emails then that's their own fault. I still use this feature and gain from it, even if it'll be dead in a select amount of months. You're getting distracted from the real issue at hand.
JetWave wrote:
They are not warning "some", they are warning everyone who uses Dropbox. If they choose to not read their emails then that's their own fault. I still use this feature and gain from it, even if it'll be dead in a select amount of months. You're getting distracted from the real issue at hand.
Actually if you are a new user to dropbox you wont be notified, and the "unsupported" public folder will show up under your dropbox folder in the file explorer.. The point I am making is not only are the screwing with millions of websites and millions of hosted images. The key function they are killing is still a functioning part of their **bleep** program.
- "Actually if you are a new user to dropbox you wont be notified, and the "unsupported" public folder will show up under your dropbox folder in the file explorer.."
False. New users do not get a public folder. Why in the world would letting us use this feature a while longer be a bad thing? - Mark
Super User II
cdgoin wrote:
JetWave wrote:
They are not warning "some", they are warning everyone who uses Dropbox. If they choose to not read their emails then that's their own fault. I still use this feature and gain from it, even if it'll be dead in a select amount of months. You're getting distracted from the real issue at hand.Actually if you are a new user to dropbox you wont be notified, and the "unsupported" public folder will show up under your dropbox folder in the file explorer.. The point I am making is not only are the screwing with millions of websites and millions of hosted images. The key function they are killing is still a functioning part of their **bleep** program.
Actually new users do not, nor have they got, a Public folder now for many many years. You could request one was added if you were a paying user, but, I'm not sure if that still works. Therefore new users wont even know what this folder is nor will they therefore miss it.
