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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!
Open Letter to Dropbox:
I urge you to provide a tool for customers to automatically migrate URL's from their legacy Public folders to the new Shared Links feature, in order to avoid suddenly breaking hundreds of thousands of links on the internet come September 1.
Some time ago you announced you would be ending the Public Folders feature, and I opened a feature request asking you to reconsider. Overnight, that feature request was voted to the 7th most popular spot on your tracker.
After the story was featured on Slashdot you unilaterally killed off the feature request and moved it to a discussion thread, which has since generated hundreds of comments from irate users. I suspect that thread is one of the most active in your forums.
I understand your need to evolve the platform and occasionally deprecate features. However I fail to see why you refuse to perform this relatively straightforward action, and instead chose to leave us users who have been loyal customers for years high and dry.
I urge you to reconsider and take prompt action.
I wonder just how different this situation is to the PS3 buyers who lost features after Sony removed Linux: https://www.polygon.com/2016/10/12/13261780/ps3-otheros-linux-lawsuit-settlement-claims
Perhaps worth investigating?
Perhaps worth investigating?
- This is a disaster for me. Dropbox had the easiest way of sharing files for posting on forums, etc. I have hundreds of images and files that were posted to various forums over MANY years. I host game mods I make.
Having one isolated folder for public sharing seems to me safer than being able to share any file anywhere.
This looks like a stupid idea cooked up by some drone in marketing. If I have to migrate my files and use more convoluted way of sharing I will be dropping Dropbox.
Dropbox needs to be aware that both One Drive and Google drive offerings are better. If they want to alienate long term users and cause massive exodus, be my guest. Join this petition to save your Public folder links!
https://www.change.org/p/dropbox-save-our-public-links
There are nearly 600 comments on this thread and over 22,000 views. If we all sign the petition it will be very hard for them to ignore.
- Adam, I'm a Dropbox user since their start (watched their famous introduction video and for this time, it was revolutionary service)... Public folder functionality is simply the best. That feature distinguished Dropbox from others...
I'm looking for alternatives and got some success with GitHub, but the way it works is very, very hard to be understood from the regular user like me. So, last week I've read a blog post on pCloud's site, and it's ironic other cloud storage providers started to embrace abandon Dropbox features. They do not listen to the community opinion, they send a notification email stop supporting public directory without knowing it affects the user, I have been using Dropbox for a long time because they have great public folder, Dropbox team Think back to the public directory. Thank you.
