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This 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.
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.
surge.sh is a great solution.
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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,…
Unfortunately, I don't think that "if it matters so much to you, you can pay $X" is a useful position. More helpful would be "beware free services that cause vendor lock-in and may stop being free at any time".
Do you use a free Gmail account? If so, how important is it for you?
This is bullshit. DB's public folder was a HUGE win. I don't even know if Nextcloud has this feature but I'm switching to it.
Me, I'ma gonna switch to Photoshop - it doesn't have this feature either, but screw those Dropbox clowns, amirite?
Anyone recommend a better alternative?
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.
The second most useful feature of Dropbox (beyond being "a folder that syncs"), gone. I'm very sad about this, even though I knew it was coming. This is literally the case of "we can't have nice things because $reasons".
For me, this was the most-used feature. "a folder that syncs" was a nice side effect. (I know - I'm clearly not "their most valuable customer segment" - if I was them I'd probably be breaking my irrelevant-to-them shit too...)
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> A product must not constantly evolve/improve for it to succeed Unfortunately, it goes against the startup ethos. That's why I avoid using startup products whenever I can. With regular companies, the problem is less pronounced, though it exists nonetheless. It's sad people have to keep fucking up things they first made work, only because they're looking for more profit.
Dropbox isn't a startup. It stopped being that a long time ago.
That said, my point was more general than just this Dropbox issue.
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.
I agree. I would recommend "(2012, 2017)" to succinctly clarify that this is somehow relevant to right now and that further investigation is needed. Note: I have flagged the parent comment so that it shows up for the moderators (and also upvoted it to counteract the impact of flagging). So, nobody else needs to flag it - if too many people do so it might go [dead].
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How exactly does Tor replace the ease of publishing something with Dropbox?
You just run a web server in a hidden service, it takes less than five minutes to set up. People without for can still see it with onion.to.
A better comparison here would be neocities