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!
Just thinking about all the bad links that will start to occur after March 15th. Each time one of those is reported, we should make it our business to publicise the cause and why Dropbox cannot be trusted. This could happen many thousands of times. Imagine how much negative advertising Dropbox will get. It won't of course do us any good. But perhaps if Dropbox just considers this, perhaps they might re-think their stupid policy. If not, in the long run, when the company falters, heads will roll. So Dropbox Management - dust off those resumes before it's too late!
Use #deadlinks to @Dropboxsupport on Twitter.. that may get more notice. WE have less than 2 months till the screw us all.
