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!
JetWave: I'd just like to state for the record that this isn't a bad thing. They're warning us ahead of any feature change or removal to minimize damage for any customers with the time and ability to change their old links. Now when you know it'll happen, it's your choice if you want to keep using it or not. It's a lot better than delivering the news at the same time as they remove it.
In a twisted way it's good that they gave warning BUT... most of the links that have been created using the Public folder are inaccessible. Basically they're telling us that they're going to damage my business (and the internet as a whole) badly in a nine month's time and my only choices are to spend thousands of dollars editing those links I can reach or else watch them all fail in a year's time. In most cases, since they're uneditable, I have no choice but to watch them fail. I don't consider that helpful!!
In a twisted way it's good that they gave warning BUT... most of the links that have been created using the Public folder are inaccessible. Basically they're telling us that they're going to damage my business (and the internet as a whole) badly in a nine month's time and my only choices are to spend thousands of dollars editing those links I can reach or else watch them all fail in a year's time. In most cases, since they're uneditable, I have no choice but to watch them fail. I don't consider that helpful!!
ColinC wrote:
It's a lot better than delivering the news at the same time as they remove it.
Here is the big issues.. They are warning some BUT they still have the Public folder and how that folder creates ( Soon to be dead links ) as past of their app.. !! Which means many will still right click and get the link and use it up until the day the links no longer work. Its like one part of Dropbox isnt talking to the other and we as the end users are screwed.
- 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?
