The Photos page is changing...

So Dropbox's Help Page now explains what the "speed scroller" is.  It's the scroll bar on the right side of the Photo Page that enables you to zip back through time to a particular date, and dispays the date as you scroll.  This will no longer be available.

It's always a mystery when a company rolls out a new version that is less robust than the last.  The speed scroller is an incredibly useful tool, not just for photos, but one could use it for any type of file.

The fact that such useful functionality, already built, is being deleted, together with the double-speak Dropbox is using in announcing and discussing this change, reinforces my suspicion that there is a licensing/patent issue lurking behind this change.  They're acting a lot like Nancy Pelosi, "You'll just have to wait to see what's changed."  Ominous.

i've decided to prepre for a Google transistion for data and photos making it as painless as possible if I find the Dropbox change(s) to be unacceptable. With a service like this which I use every days on muliple devices even small changes matter a lot. I dumped Google Photos because I was not able to get my pictures to show up in a folder in Drive. Not many people seemed to care about that, but for me, and the way I work, that was a must. So a drastic change like this in Dropbox really freak me out since there a multiple ways it can go wrong for me. And that is also why some sort of beta test or demo would make it much easier for me, and others for whom this is a big deal. 

This  summary is the problem

Ther is no solution ifor those of us that will have do download thousands of photos  already in albums and re sort them into folders. Only eeks and weeks of work. 

Dropbox should at least move our current albums into folders

I am testing Flickr. They have a good uploader"Flickr Uploader" which will upload in existing folders. It does a duplicate check so you can avoid uploading duplicates which is really useful.  Their sorting/findinig function  "organize" for setting up new albums (without recopying the photos.) is much quicker and faster than the current dropbox service. You can also email photos to Flickr which can be useful. Have not yet had a chance to test the sharing and collaborative functions, but very mpressed so far. Has anyone else had experience of FlicKr?

There is no replacement being roled out.  Why?

I don't believe it after all the lies before Carousel was killed "....integrate just like Carousel but in Dropbox...."  NEVER HAPPENED!

Dropbox has a serious trust issue.  I don't trust for one second they are going replace it.  If they were concerned they would have made the process less painful and dovetailed into a new format with a replacement ready to go.

This is a terrible idea - what on earth is the thinking behind it?

The major reason we use Dropbox is for photo/image organisation and sharing (rather than files) and I use the timeline features multiple times every week...

"The new Photos page will sort photos chronologically and allow you to scroll through your photos. The speed scroller – the timeline on the right-hand side of the page that allows you to quickly view photos from a specific date – will no longer be available after June 30."

I had only just moved from Google Photos too after they killed Picasa :-(  Now Dropbox is killing Albums. Maybe go back to good old Flickr although I guess that's about to die too :-(

Charles,

It's not only that.  If you want to share a video with someone ,the link no longer supports browser playback.  Just a download.   The videos won't play in the browser at all like they have been for years.  No warning given.

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Sharing-and-collaboration/Can-you-confirm-this-problem-for-me-tired-of-Dropbox-quot/m-p/220699#M14720