Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder • Hacker News Board

Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder

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Post by baby » Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 10:57 PM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #82

baby wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's already complicated + not free.

That's kinda the problem - why _should_ this be free? If it matters at all to you, you can host a huge amount for static website content for single digit dollars per year on S3. If it's not worth that much to you, who in their right mind will build a service based on providing that to you at your price point? And if they _have_ a service where the marginal cost of you not-caring-enough-to-pay makes little difference,…

> why _should_ this be free?

Because I'm trying to teach someone how to make a simple webpage and publish it on the internet. If in this workflow you have to get your credit card out you're doing it wrong.

Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder

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Post by baby » Thu, Mar 16, 2017, 10:58 PM UTC

rz2k wrote: post #121

baby wrote: post #7

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.

Does the public folder of a keybase.io account work?

not sure, but keybase is invite only to begin with.

Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder

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Post by jen729w » Fri, Mar 17, 2017, 8:21 AM UTC

NegativeLatency wrote: post #87

jen729w wrote: post #81

I'm amazed that there wasn't an outcry the other month when they - just one day, with zero notice - renamed my shared folder and made it a Team folder. Big deal? Well, they actually changed the name of the folder. And now I can't modify it. So yeah, big deal. I have Logic Pro templates that look there. They all broke. It wasn't too bad for me, but imagine if you had scripts or tools or whatever pointing to a file on…

Simlink to it?

I use http://johnnydecimal.com (disclosure: mine!) to organise my files. Symlinking is possible, but dirty. Messes other things up. I can't remove the folder that Dropbox put there.

It's just not right. It's my file system. Get your hands off it.