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AceJackson
New member | Level 2
4 months ago

Dropbox shared links are too long

Ever since Dropbox has moved to the sci/fi format for generating links, I've been running into a constant issue of the url links becoming so ridiculously long that websites with linkfilters will dest...
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AceJackson
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

Yea sure, I can use Steam as probably the exhibit A of this very issue.

I've been using Dropbox for project linking for a long while but the newer URLs have become a complete roadblock because of this garbling that happens.

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    Hannah
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    3 months ago

    Thanks for that, AceJackson​.

    We understand where you're coming from and we really appreciate your feedback on this.

    I've passed your comments along to our team and if you need anything else, please let us know.

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