Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
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Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
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Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
#2Well, this sucks. Are they removing this feature to cut down on bandwidth? Or perhaps piracy?
Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
#3Well, this sucks. Are they removing this feature to cut down on bandwidth? Or perhaps piracy?
From a comment further down, it sounds like it's due to considering it now redundant, and not wanting to support two ways of sharing files. The original way to share Dropbox files over the web was to drop them in your Public folder, but now you can right-click on any file, in any folder, and generate a shareable link to it. So they're going with that as the new sharing mechanism, and phasing out the "drop it in your public folder" approach.
Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
#4People started to use Dropbox as a free CDN, didn't they? Why do we need AWS CloudFront if we have Dropbox? :)
Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
#5This suck.
But it was kinda oblivious that they were going to remove it.
It was never advertised as a feature, and it was made more complicate that the "normal" sharing.
Probably they want to stop people from using it as a cdn/server, something that it was never made for.
Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
#6Dropbox public folders for new accounts will be phased out. As mentioned in the link, all current users can continue to use it.
Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
#7They are NOT removing the ability to link to files in your Dropbox. Just the Public folder itself, which is no longer needed since any file can now be shared with a public link.
EDIT: And for those of you concerned by any impact on using Dropbox as a CDN, there shouldn't be any issues. The links that Dropbox generates from your files have a bit of chrome (a preview of the contents of the file and a couple of buttons), but you can still get a direct link from the "Download" button.
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#8The Public/ folder is probably the most useful feature of Dropbox. It is totally user friendly and integrated into the desktop. You just have to drop a file in the folder and get the public url from the drop-down menu. It couldn't get much easier than that. And now it will be phased out. Really sad news. I guess it's about time to try Google Drive.
Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
#9The Public/ folder is probably the most useful feature of Dropbox. It is totally user friendly and integrated into the desktop. You just have to drop a file in the folder and get the public url from the drop-down menu. It couldn't get much easier than that. And now it will be phased out. Really sad news. I guess it's about time to try Google Drive.
If I may refer you to a previous comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115879
Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
#10They are NOT removing the ability to link to files in your Dropbox. Just the Public folder itself, which is no longer needed since any file can now be shared with a public link. EDIT: And for those of you concerned by any impact on using Dropbox as a CDN, there shouldn't be any issues. The links that Dropbox generates from your files have a bit of chrome (a preview of the contents of the file and a couple of buttons)…
In that case they should implement instant shared link creation, not via opening a web browser.