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!
The ONLY action Dropbox can take that would placate long time users of the public folder, is to grandfather existing public folders so that links will stay active for another 5 years. That should be long enough for us to make other arrangements.
Telling us how to embed files going forward may be useful, but does not address the MAJOR problem we have concerning 100s or 1000s of existing links that are in use, but not easy to locate and not always possible to edit.
Dropbox will live or die based on how they handle this going forward.
Telling us how to embed files going forward may be useful, but does not address the MAJOR problem we have concerning 100s or 1000s of existing links that are in use, but not easy to locate and not always possible to edit.
Dropbox will live or die based on how they handle this going forward.
I am going to go with Die.. they didn't learn..
It's one thing to make changes, it's another to destroy all their current users faith and work. Right now they are #2 behind MS ( OneDrive AND Sharepoint ), they will be #3 behind Box.net when its all over. They want to get more market share and instead they are going to kill what share they have.
So if you don't learn that listening to the market and your users is Paramount over what you want to do.. you are sure to fail. Just as MS lost the Mobile Phone market to Apple and Google and MySpace lost the social media one to Twitter and Facebook.
