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ae2rigc
New member | Level 2
10 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
    10 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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floris
Helpful | Level 6
9 years ago
River wrote:
Thank you all for the comments and questions about the Public folder. We understand this decision impacts many of your workflows, and requires time to update the links for your shared content.
 
In many cases, our newer sharing features are an alternative for the Public folder links. You can ‘create a shared link’ for any file or folder in your Dropbox. Creating a shared link is similar to using Public folder links, with one key difference: links are not automatically generated.
 
We recognize that this change may cause frustration. We want to help you understand your sharing options.

 

River,

So you truly haven't read any of the posts in this thread, clearly ..
If this is the attitude towards the customers ...

Again, give me one reason how removing the way /public/ works right now for us pro users has a NEGATIVE impact or a POSITIVE impact for the dropbox company.

What has caused this uproar to be worth it all that dropbox as a company ends up being so much better if those who helped you grow get cut off by the knees when this direct linking or 'pure' use of our content on our online-harddisk gets replaced by some 'wrapper' feature of dropbox?

Convince us, because some 'we put your content in a wrapper because of eeeh eeeh eehh consistency reasons' is bollox excuses that nobody believes.

I am looking for DropBox, not for 'alternatives' to linking what has worked on my 60,000+ files for years just fine.

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