Ending support of public folder

Well, that's it. My Pro subscription expired right on time. By far the most pathetic, ill-conceived decision Dropbox has ever made, to invalidate public folder links and replace it with an inferior feature. I will not be renewing.

Respectfully request so called "super users" do not to reply to this post. I don't want to hear your "justifications" and "workarounds" just you can appease Dropbox management for e-cookies. Every shared link I have on the internet no longer works, and all for what? All for nothing. 

Matthew, I can feel your frustration man!

Just let you know, ironicaly Dropbox competitors (pCloud) started to offer same functionality (Public Folder), if you are interested, just check for yourself.

Take care,

Terry, I did the same, luckily I've seen an ad for pCloud Public folder functionality, then spent few minutes to figure it out how it works...well, it's the same! :) And the best part - they have Dropbox backup feature, so I simply extracted my Dropbox pub links index file and that's it, for a couple of minutes I've transferred 6GB files...

It's a pity, I'm (was) a huge Dropbox fan and paid user, but some decisions are disputable and unclear for all of us.

There are so many requests to keep existing public folders, so there won't be massive broken images in forums, but anyway Dropbox moved on. I do not even start talking about implementing some easy, but very useful features, which are requested again by thousands of us...but there is a silence. Well, there are other cloud storage providers and they will fill this gap, I highly recommend to check pcloud dot com and see for yourself.

Best,

Just a few days ago I moved all but 5GB of files out of my Dropbox folder in preparation of cancelling my subscription. The countless hours I spent over the years creating student curriculum, lost. The thousands of links in countless blogs, lost. The trust I had in Dropbox, lost. My hard earned money going to Dropbox, lost! Kiss my ASCII Dropbox.

I remember I chose dropbox when it first came out because it seemed new, shiny and radical. I also remember seeing lots of dead forum images from stores like photobucket and thinking "I gotta choose wisely - something with integrity that'll last." 

Well, the inneviatble has happened and years of forum posting are full of dead links. Either they become:

a) a victim of being a success in a free-market economy (read: advertising, revenue, boards, corporate needs over customers) or

b) a success of being a victim of a free market economy (where altruism, creativity and humanoty never prevails!)

Rant over. Soultion: cut the cord. Sort your own home server (lot easier than it sounds - essentially just leaving a PC on 24hours) + download this app I made + voila! Your very own dropbox out of other peoples' hands.

https://sites.google.com/view/magoarcade/software/whosebox

Of course they will remove this, because they don't like anything that disagrees with them.

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Alastair L. wrote:
I found this Dropbox alternative comparison site, they want your email for the tabulated comparison data but its all there for free in the long analysis.

https://www.cloudwards.net/top-10-secure-dropbox-alternatives/

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Or, if you don't want to provide your email address:  https://www.cloudwards.net/comparison/

And if you check this comparison you will notice pCloud is the in the top position!
Check the review - https://www.cloudwards.net/review/pcloud/

And as far as I know - only they provide Public Folder functionality, same as it was in good old Dropbox...

With the loss of the Public folder's benefits (I pay for Dropbox Pro!) I have a major problem. I use the Public oder to upload score sheets from car shows I run. I then publish links to these score sheets on my web site for attendees to see their's and other's sheets. Obviously I can't name hundreds of people to each individual file for sharing so how dos I set a folder and it's contents so that a simple link to any file will allow anyone to see it, in other words like it was the Public folder.

Now to be clear as this was posted in another forum and the answer given was incorrect then marked solved and closed. I do not want to make a fiolder public so that people need to go to the foilder and choose a file, I need to make all the files "public" so that a link I create in a table will bring the user to the individual file which is an image actually. To show you how it works here is a link to a table that uses the public folder which is about to expire: http://nyautofest.com/NYAF/rulesresultsscores/show-results-and-score/springwestbury.html Toy will notice in the right coplumn a link called SCORE SHEET, that is the file that anypone can see. Once the public folder is dead these will no longer work. I have transfered all over to my server to acomplish the same goal but I don't want to do this, I prefer to keep using Dropbox (or equivalent) as it's easier to just dump new files into the folder. I did payt for this ability after all!

This loss of the public folder is a very bad thing by the way, why not just prevent people from using it to host web sites and leave the rest alone?