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!
Chris R. a écrit :
5. If you're a paid user and use the Public folder a lot, cancel your subscription - there are alternatives out there!
Can you enumerate them ?
For instance, I am currently dubious regarding MS/OneDrive that does not keep the picture's name in the generated Public Link making it difficult to batch-substitute link addresses in my Web Site !
To make a long story short, changing all occurences of :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28826553/folder1/pictureXXX.png
to :
https://1drv.ms/i/folder1/pictureXXX.png
would be a piece of cake,
but changing them *** ONE BY ONE *** to a link like :
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Al1QJkdmK-njktgb1KKlvg0MgyFHHHvkZg
is another story !
Eagerly waiting for your 'alternatives' ...
ym58 wrote:
Chris R. a écrit :
5. If you're a paid user and use the Public folder a lot, cancel your subscription - there are alternatives out there!
Can you enumerate them ?
For instance, I am currently dubious regarding MS/OneDrive that does not keep the picture's name in the generated Public Link making it difficult to batch-substitute link addresses in my Web Site !
To make a long story short, changing all occurences of :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28826553/folder1/pictureXXX.png
to :
https://1drv.ms/i/folder1/pictureXXX.png
would be a piece of cake,
but changing them *** ONE BY ONE *** to a link like :
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Al1QJkdmK-njktgb1KKlvg0MgyFHHHvkZg
is another story !
Eagerly waiting for your 'alternatives' ...
I have 97 posts with an average picture count of 4, on one forum alone.. thats 400ish pictures that will be dead links.
cdgoin a écrit :
I have 97 posts with an average picture count of 4, on one forum alone.. thats 400ish pictures that will be dead links.
They ***simply*** don't care (at DB).
You're just supposed to make a sacrifice of your life :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Period !
