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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

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

Your error for thinking Dropbox is a file hosting service. It's a file synchronization service with sharing capabilities. It has never advertised itself as a hosting service.

 

Controversial opinion to hold there buddy, didn't vote for Trump did ya? That one of those so-called "alternative facts"? 

 

Oh, right, those darned Wikipedians aren't Dropbox. Just the fact it is labelled by virtually everybody is irrelevant Dropbox would never admit they host files now, would th-

 

FWIW the terms define "stuff" to include "files".  Hosting your "files" = file hosting.

 

Warning: The above images will go dead when Dropbox decides to kill the public folder. Many such cases! Sad!

 

No, Mr Trump. It's not a "file syncronisation with sharing" service. Everyone calls it a file hosting service, including an encyclopedia, Dropbox, and an uncountable number of other sources if you care to Google. Which isn't surprising, given it hosts files.

 

It's a file hosting service.

 

And on top of that, even if it wasn't a file hosting service (which it is), this argument is still deflection off the key point, vis-a-vis link rot.

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