We’re Still Here to Help (Even Over the Holidays!) - find out more here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
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...
- 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!
(to Dima R)
The problem with that is that - I suspect - Dropbox will end support for any link beginning "dl." as soon as the Public folder stops.
It's worth pointing out that the 'dl=0' to 'dl=1' method still works in other forums, though not here. (DB obviously have control over this one, but not others).
Chris R. wrote:(to Dima R)
The problem with that is that - I suspect - Dropbox will end support for any link beginning "dl." as soon as the Public folder stops.
It's worth pointing out that the 'dl=0' to 'dl=1' method still works in other forums, though not here. (DB obviously have control over this one, but not others).
In a nutshell....THIS ^ ^ ^
And it is exactly this that their Support Monkeys catagorically REFUSE to return an answer on !!!!!!
.
- Ed
Dropbox Staff
Hi all,
I just wanted to jump in to share a bit more of how we moderate threads here in the Dropbox Community forum.
You may have seen that the thread 'Don't kill public folders' has "disappeared" and some may be thinking this was censored or so. Please note that this has not been deleted nor censored. The thread was instead merged to this one, making it a bigger but also more centralized thread for the discussion around Public Folders.
This also allows me and other folks working here in the Community to easily escalate, moderate and report back to our engineers. The lesser the information/discussions get dissolved, the better for all of it and also better to communicate to all of you and share updates.
I hope this helps clarify a bit more about the reason why you may see threads suddenly doubling in size and others 'disappearing'.
You can read more about our guidelines here: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Announcements/Community-Guidelines/m-p/190245 and you're welcome to share feedback about the overall Community forum operation and platform enhancement requests here: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Community-improvements/idb-p/101002024
Thank you,
Ed
Funny, I don't really see anything in the community guidelines about editing other user's posts for critical content, and yet I've seen that happen at least three times... and I wasn't even paying attention for about 15 pages of this.
And despite any shiny spin you put on it, choosing to remove the entire thread from the suggestions section and merge it here into the "discussion" section makes it seem as though there was no organized, hugely upvoted and very reasonable outcry. If you were going to remove one of them, why the highly upvoted suggestions thread full of reasonable ideas? If you were going to make a bewildering, confusing clusterf*ck out of one of the threads by combining two only-tangentially-related conversations, why the one we can't really do much with? Hell, this thread never even shows up on "trending discussions" on the front page, despite being basically the only thread being seen and used; just compare the numbers on it to the numbers on literally any other discussion thread.
Have you ever heard the phrase about putting a hat on a pig? Just because you say "it's not censorship" doesn't really make it so. So instead of only showing up to maintain you're not doing something you are; why don't you or "the other folks working here" actually answer some of these people's questions? I mean, do you guys actually work for Dropbox? There's been essentially no response to any of the complaints or questions about what this means. It's been radio silence. There's been no "shared updates." Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
- The 'radio silence' from DB extends too (as Ive said) to their support people too who will tacitly ignore the crucial questions when put to them. Happy only to regurgitate the canned babble speak email releases - which as we know says much but answers little at all.
- Dear Ed
Thank you for your post.
Now, please explain to us all here WHY you - and your email ticket responders - will not answer the question about preserving existing Public folder links, when it could easily be done by making Public folders 'read only'?
I can only think that it has been discussed at Dropbox and rejected. Why? It would recoup at least half of the goodwill you've already lost through this refusal. - I think we have all been banging our heads off a brick wall. I for one have voted with my feet. Found a solution that suits me on Google drive. 15GB free. Happy days! I wonder how many more customers they will lose and of course, there is no way of computing the potential ones that would be put off because of this nonsensical decision.
- Do you get direct links with Google Drive?
@ Chris R
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1Y77dv7BxpcYkFmMi1weVJnNHc
Right-click on file in G/Drive, click on 'Get shareable link', a link is generated for you, you quick double-click on it to highlight it and Control + C copies it to your clipboard.
If you click on 'Share' instead of 'Get shareable link', then you get a box that gives you extra options such as changing from 'view' to 'can edit' etc and facebook link option etc. Might need to click on the 'Advanced' button to do this, can't recall exactly as I almost always use first method.
Is there any way to get a direct link that ends in .png etc for website purposes? Basically something you can embed? So far I haven't had much luck figuring out a way to do that. And, of course, it's literally the only reason I had dropbox; this change is deleting about 8 years of work and, unless I can find a good new program that works the way Dropbox USED TO, is going to sink several websites and projects.
I can't see where you can get that type of link with G/Drive (that will show the file name) but if you click on my image link above then click on the three dots at top right of screen you get an option for 'Embed'..........maybe try experimenting with that?
We have ± 1.000 documents with ± 50.000 internal and external links. All of them will not work anymore when we move the storage location. So, you understand that we, like 100.000’s other Dropbox users, were completely beaten. We went through the classical reaction-cycle (perplex, angry, revolting, vindictive, resignation, figuring out a solution, implementing the solution) in one day. It took almost a full month of non-stop programming but now it’s ready and we are back on track. The new system is even easier to use, working faster, completely fuss-free (no publicity, no unwanted useless sidekicks or pop-ups) and the user doesn’t need any special software. Most important, NO 3rd party is involved anymore. We use our own website server as the storage location (cloud) and the hyperlinks are now hooked to our domain name. Even if we change provider, “it all just works”.
We would like to thank Dropbox for reminding us of one of the basic laws of life: whenever someone has some kind of power over you, (s)he will (ab)use it one way or another. People or organisations that’re not seduced by this kind of behaviour are the rare birds, which deserve the highest esteem. Dropbox however, they can …
- I think its the anonymity of the blasted internet that empowers these spineless suits.
(Lets face it not one has manned up enough to respond - here or elsewhere).
Face to face an attempt at an affront such as this would leave your annoyance reflecting whether his gambit still held it's novelty with your blade seven inches deep in their liver ;)
