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This was amazingly awesome because: I could teach people how to make a website, and how to have on the internet, in minutes. Having said that, I haven't had that public folder in many many many many many years. So I'm surprised about this announce. If anyone knows a quick way to let anyone do what I described above, please do tell.
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Although it involves a redirect, so it's not, per se, direct , appending ?dl=1 to a Dropbox link does at least trigger a file download.
This is not useful for hotlinking pictures, for example for embedding them in a forum.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2s31p57eod49dva/1371724997329.png?...
and navigating to this
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/2s31p57eod49dva/1371724997329.png?d...
results in a redirect to this
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/2s31p57eod49dva/13717249...
which can be hotlinked. What this means in a specific sense, I haven't yet learned. I'm particularly interested to know the behavior of any of these links if the file is moved/renamed. I have not tested it, but my intuition is the dropbox.com link would survive a move and the dropboxusercontent.com link would not.
This feels like a step backwards. DB has struggled to figure out something beyond being a really great cloud-share drive thing, and sorta kinda messed around with using your DB to host media like photos (which would then make users desire to upgrade their space) and automagically supply some interface sugar around a pile of photos. But they could have kept going in that direction and competed with all of the photosha…
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I wonder what features Dropbox can offer that won't inevitably be surpassed by Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and OneDrive.
To me, their main strength seems to be that they have the best cross-platform UI/UX right now, but even that may not be the case for long.
Maybe they could evolve/branch into a general-purpose file hosting service, where people can use it to publicly share images (like imgur) and music (like Soundcloud) with the appropriate UI for each case (or spinoff site, e.g. Imagebox and Musicbox) except people would just need one account to comment/vote on everything. Who knows, maybe they can even become an alternative to YouTube..
Let independent developers publish their games and apps from there, bypassing Steam and the other app stores, optionally charging a fee per user, with Dropbox taking a cut.
Maybe even offer a chatroom/messaging system, to compete with Slack/Skype etc.
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I'm guessing they can't go that route because youtube (google), and twitch (amazon) are the only 600lbs gorillas that can do /something/ to stave off the insane 100lbs gorilla that goes for the jugular (MPAA/RIAA and the like). Photo-gallery, as you've noted opens them to competing with other such providers... who all seem to eventually race towards throwing ads on everything to try and make some profit. Freely acces…
> This mostly sounds like DB is out of areas they want to / feel they can succeed in tapping for new customers and thus they attempt to cut back on costs with the hope of inertia retaining the existing users. I'm okay with how Dropbox as-is as a Pro user, and have no problem giving them $100/year in perpetuity. A product must not constantly evolve/improve for it to succeed (I'm looking at you Github with your damn da…
I really have the feeling that DropBox will die. They don't do anything Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive or Apple iCloud doesn't do, and these companies all have much more money / talent / infrastructure / synergy with other products.
They don't do anything Google Drive, Microsoft OneDriveol or Apple iCloud doesn't do AFAIK, neither Google Drive, OneDrive, or iCloud will work on Linux.
Third party though? onedrive: https://skilion.github.io/onedrive/
google drive (assuming you're using gnome): https://www.howtogeek.com/196635/an-official-google-drive-fo...
>> "Dropbox accounts created after October 4, 2012 won't have a Public folder." Given the initial release was in June 2007, does anyone know why this only applies to accounts created after October 4, 2012?
I'm guessing they mention those accounts in the announcement to make it clear that the changes don't apply to those accounts, since pre-10/4/12 accounts never had a Public folder at all.
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> This mostly sounds like DB is out of areas they want to / feel they can succeed in tapping for new customers and thus they attempt to cut back on costs with the hope of inertia retaining the existing users. I'm okay with how Dropbox as-is as a Pro user, and have no problem giving them $100/year in perpetuity. A product must not constantly evolve/improve for it to succeed (I'm looking at you Github with your damn da…
Right, but their problem is - at SOME point, google or Microsoft will figure it out. MS in particular will destroy them if they do get their syncing and sharing down. I'm in your same boat but I also have free onedrive through work. The second they get their sharing figured out (and quite frankly they may have already but I haven't put it through the ringer again) - dropbox is in trouble.
I ran both in parallel for nearly a year. I've cancelled Dropbox.
I have been told many times (here, as well as elsewhere) how I don't "understand" cloud and related drivel. I understand cloud very well. That's why I don't depend on it.
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I believe that's an intentional limitation.
I know it's intentional. I'm just saying it results in something that is definitely not direct and noticeably less useful. That it can be made to trigger a download is not particularly useful.
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I use GitHub. I'm a developer, so maybe this is hard... They let you use their website to create a repo, add a file, and then in the settings specify that master is the source branch for GhPages so that it's available via the browser to the world at yourname.github.io/yourproject. You can even add a custom domain if you want.
Here are the quick steps to do this. Visit github.com Create an account or login Click the green "New repository" button Give your website a name like "hello" Check the box to Initialize this repository with a README Click the Create repository button Click the Create new file button Name the file index.html Enter Hello World in the body of the file Click the Commit new file button Click the Settings gear icon Scroll…
