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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JasonSilverDBX
2 years agoDropbox Product Manager
Updates Coming to the Folder Link Sharing Experience
Dropbox is moving to an updated shared link architecture where links are based on the content being shared rather than on the user doing the sharing. This new content-based link architecture is alre...
David B.191
2 years agoHelpful | Level 5
JasonSilverDBX wrote:
Enhancing the Link Sharing ExperienceQuick, simple, stress-free file sharing is core to the Dropbox experience. Content-based links makes it even easier to share files securely and effortlessly in real-time, and we are excited to bring these benefits to all users across our full portfolio of shared links.
Adding the long string of characters after the "rlkey=" argument makes the shareable URL so long that it wraps to a second line. In many people's e-mail clients, that breaks the link.
This change DOES THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF "enhancing the link-sharing experience." 😕
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