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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!
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIThis isnt exactly new news I'm afraid.
And it was replaced a LONG LONG time ago by shared links which are pretty much Public Links BUT allowed in any location within your Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/help/167 (as per the link in the email)
Edit: apologies I have received my email now. I believed initially this was a change to the way HTML files were rendered not that they were going completely.
Mark wrote:
This isnt exactly new news I'm afraid.
And it was replaced a LONG LONG time ago by shared links which are pretty much Public Links BUT allowed in any location within your Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/help/167 (as per the link in the email)
I received this email too a few days ago, and the instructions implied that the links would be changing, so we'd need to swap them all over before March of next year. I went in to start changing the many links I share publicly for my courses, and found that they were exactly the same as the ones I've already got in place.
Are you saying that clicking the 'share' button on the right of each file already generates the right link? And that these will not be changed? Because if that's the case I'm not sure why Dropbox sent the email.
Dropbox's words "pretty much the same as" need to be challenged. Shared links are actually notremotely like direct links. The clue is in the word "direct". This means you can embed one of your - e.g. - images direct into another forum's post, and they can be seen there without having to leave the site and go to Dropbox's own site.
And there is the reason I believe : Dropbox wants everyone to suffer the inconvenience of leaving the topic they're browsing somewhere, and to go to the DB site where, I imagine, they are supposed to "sign up" for the service if they haven't already. This despite everyone already knowing who Dropbox are and unlikely to sign up to them when irritated at being diverted away from the webpage they were browsing.
