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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!
Whitdhraw from Dropbox. Specially the paying members. Nowadays there are many similar online storage pages, they are not the only one. That will make they think twice about it.
Suddenly, my Dropbox stopped working. All of it.
Coincidence?
Coincidence?
For some time I've been trying to work out a viable alternative to DropBox so that I can cancel my subscription and be shot of them. The issue seems to be how to make an IMAGE appear in a forum such as this one or (for example) a blog such as LiveJournal, rather than just a link to an image that needs to be followed. For a long time I could not figure out how to get this to work in OneDrive but I think I've now got it worked out.
If you'd like to see a two page PDF I knocked up on how to create the code to embed a OneDrive image into your blog or webpage or how to post an image from OneDrive into Facebook then here's the link.
Note: The instructions assume that you have a normal OneDrive account rather than a business or Office365 account. The procedure in those is (I think) quite similar but I can't be sure.
For those not aware, OneDrive is built into Win 8 onwards but you can download a program from this page to install it if you're still running Win 7 (as I am). The free account gives you 5Gb of space, premium costs $7/month for 1Tb.
The image below was inserted using this method.- EDT: You can also get 50Gb for $2/month. Does anyone know of a utility that will migrate files directly from the cloud in Dropbox to the cloud in OneDrive without having to go via my computer and tie up my bandwidth with up/downloads?
- Rich
Super User II
ColinC wrote:
The issue seems to be how to make an IMAGE appear in a forum such as this one or (for example) a blog such as LiveJournal, rather than just a link to an image that needs to be followed.
You can still do that in Dropbox using a Share Link. Just change the end of the link from ?dl=0 to ?raw=1. This is documented here.
Thanks ColinC!
- That is very '1984' removing useful content from a post. People need to know about alternative solutions to dropbox so I am baffled by your response. Frankly obsequious pretence that there are no problems is unhelpful.
Having email alerts to this forum means I see all the content Dropbox is deleting. There is a CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF IT, including helpful advice and solutions to their manufactured problems, as well as critique. Even critique including the words "this will probably be deleted." It was, in seconds. Edited to something the original poster did not say at all.
This is really something remarkable to document. Dropbox has gone beyond "sh*tty company" and into sheer hardcore censoring of any conversation to make it look like complaints aren't happening. This will probably be edited/deleted too. But make no mistake, anyone who DOES manage to see this--Dropbox is definitely showing their true colors here.- Yeah I have email alerts and see this happening. It tends to be done by the so-called 'super-users' (I don't know if they are employees) or just being exceptionally obsequious and attempting to rewrite history.
- You should try asking straight forward baby English questions to its help desk about this if you want to really experience these attributes. Either its manned by hydrocephalic primates that just hit a canned response button (however irrelevant) or else cogent holders of a basic education who are frankly just taking the p**s.
- Ed
Dropbox Staff
Hi everyone,
The post has been recovered. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Rich wrote:
ColinC wrote:The issue seems to be how to make an IMAGE appear in a forum such as this one or (for example) a blog such as LiveJournal, rather than just a link to an image that needs to be followed.
You can still do that in Dropbox using a Share Link. Just change the end of the link from ?dl=0 to ?raw=1. This is documented here.
You seem to have missed the point. I am fully aware that it CAN be done under the new Dropbox interface. However, most of us are no longer interested - your company's blatent contempt for its customer base has meant that my withdrawal is inevitable. The only thing that's stopped me up to this point has been working out how to create similar effects in the competition's software.
Your amazing cheek in censoring a post that was there purely to help others is typical of Dropbox's new attitude and makes my decision even easier. Since I don't mention any names here I'll be interested to see if this post is also censored.
In the meantime, since external links are not allowed, nor are references to other company's software, let's just say that people may find this link (to a document on Dropbox!) to be of interest.
- ETD: I see that they've actually restored it. Well, small kudos for that I suppose. Doesn't change my decision to leave though.
- Mine neither; even if they weren't ruining eight years of hard work on my end and the ends of thousands of others, the sheer gall and blatant disrespect in how they're "handling" this is mind-numbing. Let's be blunt here: the only reason the post was """"recovered"""" is because we pointed out it what they'd done was clearly evident to anyone getting e-mail notifications. They got caught. They don't deserve kudos for a canned non-response to their shady tactics being pointed out.
I'm sick of boilerplate replies by these "super users" that trivialise our concerns with simplistic 'workaround' posts, which are not actually 'workarounds'. How about you 'work around' breaking the links people here have been generating for almost a decade. How about, rather than pandering to any decision corporate makes, you show some autonomy and you yourselves question that fact this is an inane decision that lessens the user experience and is driving away users.
My mother used to tell me some quote along the lines of "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything". I much preferred my father's adaptation. "If you don't have anything useful to say"....
The ONLY action Dropbox can take that would placate long time users of the public folder, is to grandfather existing public folders so that links will stay active for another 5 years. That should be long enough for us to make other arrangements.
Telling us how to embed files going forward may be useful, but does not address the MAJOR problem we have concerning 100s or 1000s of existing links that are in use, but not easy to locate and not always possible to edit.
Dropbox will live or die based on how they handle this going forward.I am going to go with Die.. they didn't learn..
It's one thing to make changes, it's another to destroy all their current users faith and work. Right now they are #2 behind MS ( OneDrive AND Sharepoint ), they will be #3 behind Box.net when its all over. They want to get more market share and instead they are going to kill what share they have.
So if you don't learn that listening to the market and your users is Paramount over what you want to do.. you are sure to fail. Just as MS lost the Mobile Phone market to Apple and Google and MySpace lost the social media one to Twitter and Facebook.
- Hah, the edit really IS there, still! Amazing.
https://www.multcloud.com , u can do a remote upload , i use ammazons3.
- Mac users can also sign up for a One Drive account (just need to register for a hotmail or Outlook email address) - after that, it just behaves the same way as for Windows users.
- Actually, you don't need to change from "dl=0" to "raw=1" - "dl=1" also works and I've tested it in another forum. I'll test it here too:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s63vkui5hj8iifk/13886356_1344156158947621_6261452485851677603_n.jpg?dl=1
Hopefully it will display when I post. My only worry is that the egregious Dropbox will knock this practice on the head too, after March. We can only hope they don't, and if they do, protest to every consumer radio and TV programme going. - Weird. It hasn't worked here, but did on another forum. Ok, I'll try the other suggestion...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s63vkui5hj8iifk/13886356_1344156158947621_6261452485851677603_n.jpg?raw=1 - That hasn't worked either, but clicking the ?raw=1 link opens just the image in a new tab, so no hijacking the user to the DB website, which is at least one positive.
DimaSuper User alumni
Chris R: Just change the host name from "www.dropbox.com" to "dl.dropboxusercontent.com", and don't add any query parameters, e.g.:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/s63vkui5hj8iifk/13886356_1344156158947621_6261452485851677603_n.jpg
That will give you the contents of the file, and will avoid a redirect that dl=1 and raw=1 need to do.Sad how this company just stops supporting things.
I dont want to hear any BS about you can MAKE them from anywhere now, since you dont have to MAKE public folder links at all, they just ARE!
Knowing the content of the public folder, and the public folder section of the link, you can instantly create a link without any interaction with the DB site, while your offline if you like.
- Ex-fookin-actly
DBs competition (can I say things like photobucket here without getting the cane?) supply the damned link you need with a mouse click.
What part of providing a service is:
"ohh you can get the link we provide - granted it doesnt actually work - but if you stand on your head facing into wind and whistle 'Jerusalem' you can convert it into something we cant be bothered to" I didn't realise that when this all started, originally a user entered a feature request to restore this functionality and it hit the top six before it was censored and purged by Dropbox:
https://i.imgur.com/uRaN7Vc.png
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/2111220/dropbox-kills-public-folders-users-rebel
*Way to get engender trust and get feedback from your paying customers* !
(me wonders if this will get censored....)
