PSA: Dropbox Public Links will be made redundant in March 2017

parrotsnpineapple's picture
"Hi Kate,

We’re always looking to improve the Dropbox sharing experience. The Public folder was the first sharing method we introduced, and since then, we’ve built even better ways for you to share securely and work together with your team.

As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Basic users will be able to use the Public folder until March 15, 2017. After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.

If you’d like to keep sharing files in your Public folder, you can create new shared links. Just make sure to send the new URLs to your collaborators.

In addition to shared links, we have a number of sharing options designed to make collaboration easier and give you more control. To learn more, visit our Help Center.

The Dropbox team"


Im so mad.
Like.
ALL MY BIOS AND CONTENT JFC.

Heads up guys
Sad

Go and register on the forums and complain. Bang pots outside their headquarters. This is huge.
Evern's picture

Well crap. There goes all my

Well crap. There goes all my commissions, fonts...
Wow...

e- OK I re-read and we're getting new urls for our content. phew. Still this is a load of work, aaugh.

parrotsnpineapple's picture

We are getting new urls but I

We are getting new urls but I think we have to convert it ourselves. You have to create new links for every bit of content.

I would be a lot happier for the change if they just converted it for me.
Evern's picture

Same. It's really insane- I

Same. It's really insane- I need to contact everyone now with updated code. I wish they would just convert it themselves.

Laaaame. Thank you for the

Laaaame. Thank you for the heads up!
Unplugged's picture

this is really damn annoying.

this is really damn annoying. i don't know what prompted them to make this change but it really frustrates me.
parrotsnpineapple's picture

Apparently its been in the

Apparently its been in the works since 2012. First Ive heard of it.

A lot of pro users are unsubscribing because of it so I can only hope this prompts them to change their mind.
Draak's picture

Oh man I remember when

Oh man I remember when imageshack did this sort of thing, I was fuming.
Eq's picture

Ridiculous.

Ridiculous.
alcinda's picture

I'm hoping we'll still be

I'm hoping we'll still be able to use the trick to make shared links into direct links. Even if it's still a pain in the ass.. \: Not looking forward to having to replace every link I have in my bios, sob.
HoneyDiva's picture

I hope that they will change

I hope that they will change their mind, because this is just crazy .-.
I'm probably going to go complain. Redoing all the URLs doesn't seem to be fun at all, lol.