Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon • Hacker News Board

Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon

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Post by runn1ng » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 3:53 PM UTC

Gormo wrote: post #149

deefour wrote: post #110

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Dropbox support offered up the ?dl=1 querystring as the solution to permanent, public URLs when I emailed them, but I have the same issue with the fact that the files are forced to download. If they're going to stick with Dropbox branded preview for public URLs, I'd like to at least see a similar ?view=1 querystring to keep images/pdfs/etc.. displaying directly in the browser.

Delete the '?dl=1' parameter, and change the URL from 'www.dropbox.com' to 'dl.dropbox.com'. This yields a proper direct link to the file, but the directory tree is still inaccessible.

That's perfect, thanks!

Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon

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Post by antihero » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 10:53 AM UTC

smarx wrote: post #118

antihero wrote: post #54

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Ok so say you're bashing out a HTML site with some other frontend people, so you throw it up on your Public folder, and they can access it at /u/8798798/whatever/index.html, and their browsers can access associated content (html, css). This is used a LOT in the web design industry, and taking this out is going to piss a lot of people off.

Sorry to veer a little off-topic, but where's a good place to reach out to those in the web design industry who are using Dropbox public folders this way? My startup, site44.com, does exactly this, on top of Dropbox (with custom domains and passwords if you want). I think designers would love it, but I'm not really part of that community and don't know the best way to introduce it to them. Any suggestions?

Personally I'd look at going to networking events and checking out mailing lists for co-working spaces. I'll give a spin and a mention to the people I know.

Edit: Just gave it a spin. I can't seem to find a way to share the folder that Site44 has created. This is pretty much the key to it all as it allows people to collaborate on things.

Re: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon

#153

Post by smarx » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 8:39 PM UTC

antihero wrote: post #152

smarx wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry to veer a little off-topic, but where's a good place to reach out to those in the web design industry who are using Dropbox public folders this way? My startup, site44.com, does exactly this, on top of Dropbox (with custom domains and passwords if you want). I think designers would love it, but I'm not really part of that community and don't know the best way to introduce it to them. Any suggestions?

Personally I'd look at going to networking events and checking out mailing lists for co-working spaces. I'll give a spin and a mention to the people I know. Edit: Just gave it a spin. I can't seem to find a way to share the folder that Site44 has created. This is pretty much the key to it all as it allows people to collaborate on things.

Thanks for the tips, and thanks for helping to spread the word.

Yes, it makes us very sad that you can't share app folders. Dropbox tells us it's an implementation limitation that's not likely to change soon. :-( An alternative for us would be to skip the Apps folder and go for full access to your Dropbox, but in terms of privacy, we don't really want that access. We like being sandboxed in the Apps folder, but it does mean folders can't be shared.