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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!
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
- On doing further research I looked for my own public links. It only found 5 of the over 40 links I had created.
So that 1.25Million above may need to be scaled to 10million??- Would be great if everyone would like and SHARE this page - might just help to get us noticed in the longrun? https://www.facebook.com/Dropbox-dont-kill-public-folders-1757807227875969/
The main question is, that dl.dropbox.com stays available, or not? As using the "new" sharing link, but changing the ww.dropbox.com to dl.dropbox.com makes direct download possible.
- No. That's not the most important point at all! The important point is all the millions of links that are going to become invalid in a few months time. And the damage that's going to do to business & the internet in general.
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 !
I just received the email notifying me of this change a couple of days ago, but I'm very confused.
The email suggests that I can manually share these files by creating a public link and copying it. However, all my files already have a public link of "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/..." and they're what I already use. Where are these links "https://1drv.ms/..." coming from? All dropbox presents to me in the same links that I am using now.
This would be great, of course, if existing links were preserved, but am I missing something?
TonyProctor a écrit :
I just received the email notifying me of this change a couple of days ago, but I'm very confused.
The email suggests that I can manually share these files by creating a public link and copying it. However, all my files already have a public link of "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/..." and they're what I already use. Where are these links "https://1drv.ms/..." coming from? All dropbox presents to me in the same links that I am using now.
This would be great, of course, if existing links were preserved, but am I missing something?
Please read the pertaining post carefully : it was about finding 'alternatives' to DB to circumvent their new policy !
So, this post explained my difficulties using MS/OneDrive as a 1:1 alternative to DB.
ym58 wrote:
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 have 97 posts with an average picture count of 4, on one forum alone.. thats 400ish pictures that will be dead links.
cdgoin a écrit :
I have 97 posts with an average picture count of 4, on one forum alone.. thats 400ish pictures that will be dead links.
They ***simply*** don't care (at DB).
You're just supposed to make a sacrifice of your life :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Period !
