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!
I can't get Dl=1 to work on a BBS, the shared Dropbox link just shows up, not the image.
Chris R. wrote:
Photo O. wrote:I'm finding that even dl=1 works when you enclose it in BBCode on a forum
Yes, that's so. Some forums don't even require you to know BBCode - if you click their Image button you get [img][/img] in your post, with the cursor placed between so you can paste a url in. The only problem (I've discovered) is that though the image renders successfully, if someone right clicks it to open the image in a new window/tab, it doesn't, it downloads instead.
None of this helps with the mountain of broken links that Dropbox have just created and refuse to fix.
age.
Rob S.47 wrote:I can't get Dl=1 to work on a BBS, the shared Dropbox link just shows up, not the image.
Chris R. wrote:
Photo O. wrote:I'm finding that even dl=1 works when you enclose it in BBCode on a forum
Yes, that's so. Some forums don't even require you to know BBCode - if you click their Image button you get [img][/img] in your post, with the cursor placed between so you can paste a url in. The only problem (I've discovered) is that though the image renders successfully, if someone right clicks it to open the image in a new window/tab, it doesn't, it downloads instead.
None of this helps with the mountain of broken links that Dropbox have just created and refuse to fix.
I've tried it in a forum powered by phpBB software and it works there ok. Mind you, it's a forum where you can't upload images, only link to external images, but even so DL=1 (or Raw=1) seems to work fine between [img][/img] html. Perhaps BBS works in a different way?
- I have tried all three, both with and without IMG BBCode tags in vBulletin, and this is how they behave for me.
With IMG tags
dl=0 does not work, it just shows a "broken image" icon in the input box, and nothing at all in the post.
dl=1 works, and right click>view image opens a download dialog box
raw=1 works, and right click>view image opens the image in the current browser tab
Without IMG tags
dl=0 shows a link that, when left clicked, opens the image in a Dropbox browser window
dl=1 shows a link that, when left clicked, opens a download dialog box
raw=1 shows a link that, when left clicked, opens the image in a new tab when the image below 404's, along with all my other forum post images, I advise everyone to walk out the door :)
Another reason the functionality of the new shared links is inferior: you can't maintain a logical folder structure on your links, such as
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4647608/test-folder/test-file.txt
Instead you get a random string of garble.
Wow, my user ID is exposed, how utterly concerning. 4647608. There ya go. That's how concerned I am about that information being public info. Who. Cares.
