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ae2rigc
New member | Level 2
9 years ago
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Ending support of public folder

Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.   --------- As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Publ...
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  • Mark's avatar
    Mark
    9 years ago
    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!
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bHogan
Helpful | Level 6
9 years ago

IF this is ever read by corporate:

 

Your letter about "looking to improve the Dropbox sharing experience" was the same cheap BS that has become prevalent lately. But you know that.

 

You also are aware of the harm you are causing with this business decision, but you surely had your reasons. That has to be profit - somehow. Ads? less traffic? We don't know.

 

You may call this naive but if you left the public folder for Pro & Business users you'd have a lot of those free users ponying up. You have a huge amount of free subscribers by the short hairs. 

 

 

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rfdesigner
Helpful | Level 6
9 years ago

Hasn't even started working for me..  I've just tried with a shared image to a forum, once moved it disappears from the forum.

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