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Ending support of public folder
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 Publ...
- LGM - the issue is that people are abusing it and causing issues for everybody by getting the Dropbox domains blacklisted which cause emails to fail and downloads to be blocked by firewalls etc.
In terms of changing the extension, sorry, no idea how you would do that!
As a teacher over the last 6+ years I have been a paying customer of Dropbox utilizing the public folder HEAVILY with links in my school's LMS. I simply can't believe with one action Dropbox is going to wipe all those years worth of links away. I RELY on the public folder feature. This is not the way to do business with your long-time paying customers. If I am forced to upgrade all my links in my LMS you can bet it won't be through Dropbox. The school offers all teachers onedrive for free, which I loath, but at least I won't have to pay for the feature of being noodled over by execs that don't ask their users how a change like this will affect them.
- Public folders are why I've been a Dropbox customer since it's beta days. I'm a paying customer, too, and do not abuse the service.
So, okay, what alternatives exist? Must I spin up my own Apache server again? I've much preferred Dropbox for my purposes for convenience and quick updates from any of my devices. Box doesn't offer anything similar... where else should I look? Seems Dropbox will be losing me if they go this direction.Pretty sure spideroak will let you
- Yeah, I'll be taking my files elsewhere too.
The public folder is the sole reason I even have Dropbox in the first place. I use zero of its other features. Heck, I couldn't even tell you if it has other features, or what they would be. Had to visit the Help pages to even figure out what "links" were. Unfortunately, after trying it out, I can confidently say that the "links" feature is not a replacement, in contrast to what Dropbox claims - it's just a way to trick the userbase into sending other people unsolicited advertising.
Well, at least we got advance warning. Plenty of time to find an alternative.
Sorry, Dropbox. I had a good time with you for many years. But by killing all my externally linked content in one fell swoop, you might as well have deleted my account. That would have had the same effect. So don't be cross if I do the honors instead.- What a shame. Looks like I'll have to start migrating everything to another service which is going to eat up a tremendous chunk of my time. Thanks for bringing something so great only to take it away a few years later.
