Ending support of public folder

[ae2rigc]

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 Public folder until
September 1, 2017. After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.

If you’d like to keep sharing files in your Public folder, you can create new shared links. Just make sure to send the new URLs to your collaborators.

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It is one of the most useful features of the service for me as I use it to get links to single files that I can send to people without setting up shared folders and requiring them to have dropbox accounts.

(Save file to my public folder locally, syncs, right click, get publick link, paste. Doesn't get any easier than that.)

It's also useful for bb style forum posts where you can link to images with an easy tag.

With the public folder support being removed, is there going to be an alternative solution to allow easy public sharing of single files?

[ym58]

@Mark (Super User),

OK, I withdraw it.

However, as a super user, how can you explain I could be lied to to that extend on the DB Zendesk ?

( see this post )

[Mark]

I cant, because as Rich said earlier we are not employees. We are (paying) users just like you. Therefore we have no access to the ZenDesk systems and so cannot see the tickets to verifiy what you are saying is correct, or, who did it etc. Hence my advice earlier. 

[ym58]

@Mark (Super User)

Do you want to read the transcripts ?

I can post them here if you will ...

[Mark]

No, because that doesnt change anything. I cannot verify them (its easy to forge I'm afraid). I also cannot do anything with them.

I am nothing other than a moderator on here. I have zero authority with Dropbox.

All I can suggest is cancelling payments in future and if necessary speaking to your card company or Dropbox again - nobody here, at all, can help.

[ym58]

I am afraid you are right ("zero authority with Dropbox").

You must have some guts to face such a roaring turmoil ...

[Rich]

We're just here to keep things moving in a civil manner. We don't censor your messages other than for violations of the community guidelines. Don't spam, swear, harass, threaten, etc. You can vent all you want; just be adults about it.

[dremodaris]

If Dropbox stated to you that their product would meet a certain spec that it turned out not to meet, then I would think you have legal grounds for at least reclaiming your money. Dropbox can state anything in its terms of agreement, but this is all overridden by the law which, I expect, protects customers from being lied to.
Note: I am not a law specialist.

Also, I checked again and *still on this day*, pressing the Share button in the public folders produces old-style links *without a warning*. Even apart from the quality of their decision, the move is ill-prepared and ill-communicated. Highly unprofessional.
(I filed a bug about this, which they responded to with a useless link to a generic help page, rather than fixing the problem.)

[Chris R.]

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@Rich wrote:
We're just here to keep things moving in a civil manner. We don't censor your messages other than for violations of the community guidelines. Don't spam, swear, harass, threaten, etc. You can vent all you want; just be adults about it.

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FYI - you said the same thing to me about language. I live in Britain and for your information, the words h-e-l-l and d-a-m-n are NOT swear words over here and haven't been for decades (if you can point to anything objectionable about either word I would be both grateful and amazed and disbelieving). We in the UK are far more likely to object to the utterly ghastly MF word which you Americans use at the drop of a hat.

[ym58]

@Chris R.

You're b***** d*** right, mate !

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My feeling is that the more DB moderators will argue over what is or what is not a violation of the community guidelines, the less they will have to take a stance on what we ***ALL*** think here : DB users have been misled (to say the least) and moreover they don't receive any ***official*** answer from DB !

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Some more turmoil to come on this thread, "fellas" !

[Mark]

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@ym58 wrote:

@Chris R.

Some more turmoil to come on this thread, "fellas" !

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All that would do is cause the thread to be closed and users banned which isnt going to help anybody. 

As I said if you have been mislead go to the credit card company and complain (in the UK at least) you'd get a refund under Consumer Credit Act. 

I know that, personally, I dont agree with the links not functioning in future, but, am pleased to say it isnt going to impact me too much (I've only a handful I need to change). We dont get too much more than you guys do if I'm honest.