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hypnocoach
Helpful | Level 5
9 years ago
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My public links are no longer working

All my public links are suddenly not working. I noticed that the previously copied link URL that I've given to people to access the file had "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com" as the first part of t...
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  • Jane's avatar
    Jane
    9 years ago

    Hey hypnocoach, 

     

    Thanks for getting in touch here!

     

    Please note that public links will no longer function as of March 15, 2017 for Basic users and on September 1, 2017 for Plus and Dropbox for Business users. You can find more information here: https://www.dropbox.com/help/16.

     

    Hope this helps you clarify! If there's anything else you need to ask, please let me know. 

     

    Kind regards, 

    JaneA

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Romout-GL
New member | Level 2
9 years ago

Why you did it? It was so usefull to share some pic., videos, pdf, and other file in such simple way (public link). Why do we need all this dl=0/1 and raw=1 now? Will the public link a commersial option now, or what?

 

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Rich
Icon for Super User II rankSuper User II
9 years ago
Romout-GL wrote:

Why you did it?

Best guess... It was being abused, and it was never really intended for hosting files on webpages anyway. It was meant for sharing files with other people. If you want to host images on forums, blogs, etc., then you really should be using a web host or an image hosting service.

 

Will the public link a commersial option now, or what?

Nope. Commercial accounts are losing the feature in September.

  • Matthew T.27's avatar
    Matthew T.27
    Collaborator | Level 8
    9 years ago

    Drinking game: take a shot whenever a super user barges into a thread to offer excuses for this decision

     

    >If you want to host images on forums, blogs, etc., then you really should be using a web host or an image hosting service.

    My error for thinking a file hosting service could be used for, ya know, hosting files

     

     

     

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