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aRealHumanBartender
Helpful | Level 6
2 years ago
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Force render issues (raw=1) and shared links won't work for hosting.

images were perfect on all browsers until yesterday afternoon - what is the fix or is this a dropbox issue?
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  • lisadbx's avatar
    lisadbx
    2 years ago

    We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links that started recently. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working. 

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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi Msloane2, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

 

Just for clarification, when you say 'images from the web', do you mean when you open the shared link from outside of the Wordpress site?

 

This will help me to assist further!

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kelvinb
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Did you get a fix? All of my iframe embedded videos using the raw=1 change in the link have stopped working on Wordpress too. 

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    Greenlaw
    Explorer | Level 4
    2 years ago

    No fix yet. All my shared images are still broken today.

    • Mark's avatar
      Mark
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      2 years ago
      Greenlaw wrote:

      No fix yet. All my shared images are still broken today.

      It seems to be an intentional change on shared links - based upon the fact that the links themselves work when not on a web page. I would not expect Dropbox to change this - they didnt last time. 

       

      You would be better off looking at moving to, and using, a proper webhost.

      • Greenlaw's avatar
        Greenlaw
        Explorer | Level 4
        2 years ago

        Hmm...this is unfortunate, if true.

         

        I've been a long-time subscriber to Dropbox for many reasons, and this was one important one. I don't really want to shop around for another cloud storage service yet but I may have to consider doing so if this is the case.

         

        Can anyone from Dropbox please verify or explain the reason the shared image links suddenly broke without warning yesterday? Thanks!

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