Title is evidently incorrect: the link itself clearly states they just disabled this functionality for Free accounts.
I can verify it still works for Pro/Plus accounts with existing Public folders.
Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
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Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
#32Title is evidently incorrect: the link itself clearly states they just disabled this functionality for Free accounts. I can verify it still works for Pro/Plus accounts with existing Public folders.
Only until September 1, according to the page.
> Effective September 1, 2017, Dropbox Pro, Plus, and Business users will no longer be able to render HTML content, and the Public folder and its sharing functionality will be disabled.
Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
#33This 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.
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.
Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
#34This 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.
Archive.org lets you upload your own files, with metadata.
You have a bit more of a guarantee there. Bonus points if you fill in the copyright field correctly.
PDFs, audio files, video files etc will all be post-processed and rendered like you would expect them to be.
Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
#35I 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.
Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
#36This is pretty lame, now when I share files I have to direct them to Dropbox's dumb interstitial page which pushes them to sign up.
Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, they definitely notified their users. There were emails and warnings in the UI, it was very visible. Really, you can't blame Dropbox there. However, one can still blame Dropbox for the change itself. I used this on several occasions, including hosting archives for academic publications. No way in hell I can change those links. Maybe that wasn't a wise choice, but at that time it looked like a good way: The link d…
I do not see any emails from them. Maybe I read them over quickly and deleted them :-(
I'm not an active dropbox user, but I have had an account for quite some time. I just searched and I have no emails from dropbox about this change.
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#38I relied on this "light" publishing for a few things and I'm quite pissed off. I did not notice any notification on this. To me, this should be done very very visibly and with tons of warnings. I used it to communicate screenshots with details, etc. Now all links are broken and I'm SOL with no viable solution to changing those links from documents, bugs, etc., etc. Very very very bad!
Oh, they definitely notified their users. There were emails and warnings in the UI, it was very visible. Really, you can't blame Dropbox there. However, one can still blame Dropbox for the change itself. I used this on several occasions, including hosting archives for academic publications. No way in hell I can change those links. Maybe that wasn't a wise choice, but at that time it looked like a good way: The link d…
I'm a Dropbox Plus user and I didn't see a single email or in-app message about this.
Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
#39This 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.
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.
is github pages limited to jekyll? Or can you host any kind of html page? I thought about it as well but it adds a lot of complexity. Git is not easy to learn.
Oh wait, you're saying that you can do everything without using Git? That sounds good then.
Re: Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won't have a public folder
#40This 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…
My guess is that the reason they are closing this is the cost of bandwidth. Dropbox allowed to host publicly all types of large files and exchange such files by a link that did not require any interaction with DropBox to download. It seems really hard to monetize such usage.