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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!
Well thank you Dropbox for changing the rules after the game started. It looks like come September 2017 I'll be dropping Dropbox since you no longer will let me have the Public Folder I signed up for when I subscribed many years ago. I have years of public links in thousands of posts to dozens of web forums that link to pictures and short videos in my public folder. With one broad arbitrary decission, and without asking your paying custoers how it will effect them, you've negated my only reason for being a Dropbox customer. And you have not provided any workable option for myself and the others on this forum who you have placed in the same boat. I can't begin to describe how angry I am right now for this brain dead decision you have forced down our throats.
We're trying (perhaps in vain) to get Dropbox to take notice.... Like our page and help us get them message to dropbox that as paying customers, we do not want to lose the Public Folder! :triumph:
https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/
https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/
Fe wrote:
We're trying (perhaps in vain) to get Dropbox to take notice.... Like our page and help us get them message to dropbox that as paying customers, we do not want to lose the Public Folder! :triumph:
https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/Plan of campaign:
1. "Like" the Facebook page above
2. Raise a ticket with Dropbox Customer "Support" about the Public folder
3. If you have a blog, write about this ridiculous 'breaking' of bits of the whole internet (broken links)
4. Be satirical and mocking - refer everywhere to "Dripbox" (or if you have better name, share it with us :) )
5. If you're a paid user and use the Public folder a lot, cancel your subscription - there are alternatives out there!
6. Don't stop campaigning until we either win, or cause Dripbox no end of hassle, embarrassment and notoriety
Can we do it? Yes we can!
Chris R. a écrit :
5. If you're a paid user and use the Public folder a lot, cancel your subscription - there are alternatives out there!
Can you enumerate them ?
For instance, I am currently dubious regarding MS/OneDrive that does not keep the picture's name in the generated Public Link making it difficult to batch-substitute link addresses in my Web Site !
To make a long story short, changing all occurences of :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28826553/folder1/pictureXXX.png
to :
https://1drv.ms/i/folder1/pictureXXX.png
would be a piece of cake,
but changing them *** ONE BY ONE *** to a link like :
https://1drv.ms/i/s!Al1QJkdmK-njktgb1KKlvg0MgyFHHHvkZg
is another story !
Eagerly waiting for your 'alternatives' ...
I just did a google search on "dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/"
I got 1.25 million hits
That represents a huge number of broken links.
By contrast the hits for "www.dropbox.com/s/" was 1.93 million
So by that token 40% of DropBox links use the public folder
I am still very hurt by this move
Bob JordanB
