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I 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

by cpg 10y ago

I 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!

zitterbewegung 10y ago
I have an email notification from Dropbox in December of last year saying this will be disabled.
- cpg 10y ago
  Yes, I probably missed the notifications somehow. They probably should have had some warning on the app itself when putting or sharing files from that folder. It's a free service, so my bad for using it without a good backup, but I had used programs for a long long time that produce screenshots with one keystroke and copy the URL to the clipboard, saving time. I figured this was relatively low overhead for them and a popular feature, so they would keep it. Lesson learned ..
  - ajmurmann 10y ago
    I got the same email as the GP, but also saw a message on the web page. However, how frequently does anyone log in to the web page? Disclaimer: I've been fed delicious lamb chops and duck at the DB office, so my view might be tainted. Edit: I also received another email about it on March 1st
    - khedoros1 10y ago
      I got a notification about ToS change on Dec 21st, but it doesn't mention any features going away, mostly changes to which profile information will be displayed in various situations. Looking over the past 6 months, I don't have anything else but "Hey, you added a new device to Dropbox!"
  - bigiain 10y ago
    I got (and noticed the email), but putting notification in the app or website would have most likely gone completely unnoticed for me. The nice thing about Dropbox (for me) is that it vanishes completely to me. It's just another folder on my Macs that "magically" has the same stuff everywhere, and in my phone/tablets I pretty much exclusively use it's other-app-integration. I can't remember the last time I opened the Dropbox app or visited the site.
onli 10y ago
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 did not give a clue about my identity, making peer review easier, and DB being a well-funded and known internet company those links were surely meant to work forever, cool URLs don't change is something they had to know. Boy was I wrong.
- cpg 10y ago
  I do not see any emails from them. Maybe I read them over quickly and deleted them :-(
  - Steeeve 10y ago
    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.
- gk1 10y ago
  I'm a Dropbox Plus user and I didn't see a single email or in-app message about this.
  - nsm 10y ago
    There was an email in mid December 2016, another one at the beginning of March 2017, and if I remember correctly, one even before that. I'm not even a Pro user.
    - bigiain 10y ago
      Confirming, I got mail on Dec 16 and Mar 03 notifying me of this. (Pro User, they renewed my account automatically on Dec 01, which annoyed me somewhat... "Here' we're taken your payment, but failed to mention to you we were announcing in two weeks the removal of the most useful bit to you from the service you're paying for! Have a nice day!"
hundchenkatze 10y ago
I received a notification 3 to 4 months ago and then a reminder about 2 weeks ago. Maybe a spam filter ate it. :(
fjarlq 10y ago
-edited to remove wrong info-
- bigiain 10y ago
  Nope - only the business plan - my Pro Plan (which they rebilled two weeks before announcing this change) has also just broken all its public folder links...)
27182818284 10y ago
I was definitely notified at least once. I think I can recall two emails.

by cpg 10y ago

zitterbewegung 10y ago

I have an email notification from Dropbox in December of last year saying this will be disabled.

cpg 10y ago
Yes, I probably missed the notifications somehow. They probably should have had some warning on the app itself when putting or sharing files from that folder. It's a free service, so my bad for using it without a good backup, but I had used programs for a long long time that produce screenshots with one keystroke and copy the URL to the clipboard, saving time. I figured this was relatively low overhead for them and a popular feature, so they would keep it. Lesson learned ..
- ajmurmann 10y ago
  I got the same email as the GP, but also saw a message on the web page. However, how frequently does anyone log in to the web page? Disclaimer: I've been fed delicious lamb chops and duck at the DB office, so my view might be tainted. Edit: I also received another email about it on March 1st
  - khedoros1 10y ago
    I got a notification about ToS change on Dec 21st, but it doesn't mention any features going away, mostly changes to which profile information will be displayed in various situations. Looking over the past 6 months, I don't have anything else but "Hey, you added a new device to Dropbox!"
- bigiain 10y ago
  I got (and noticed the email), but putting notification in the app or website would have most likely gone completely unnoticed for me. The nice thing about Dropbox (for me) is that it vanishes completely to me. It's just another folder on my Macs that "magically" has the same stuff everywhere, and in my phone/tablets I pretty much exclusively use it's other-app-integration. I can't remember the last time I opened the Dropbox app or visited the site.

onli 10y ago

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 did not give a clue about my identity, making peer review easier, and DB being a well-funded and known internet company those links were surely meant to work forever, cool URLs don't change is something they had to know. Boy was I wrong.

cpg 10y ago
I do not see any emails from them. Maybe I read them over quickly and deleted them :-(
- Steeeve 10y ago
  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.
gk1 10y ago
I'm a Dropbox Plus user and I didn't see a single email or in-app message about this.
- nsm 10y ago
  There was an email in mid December 2016, another one at the beginning of March 2017, and if I remember correctly, one even before that. I'm not even a Pro user.
  - bigiain 10y ago
    Confirming, I got mail on Dec 16 and Mar 03 notifying me of this. (Pro User, they renewed my account automatically on Dec 01, which annoyed me somewhat... "Here' we're taken your payment, but failed to mention to you we were announcing in two weeks the removal of the most useful bit to you from the service you're paying for! Have a nice day!"

hundchenkatze 10y ago

I received a notification 3 to 4 months ago and then a reminder about 2 weeks ago. Maybe a spam filter ate it. :(

fjarlq 10y ago

-edited to remove wrong info-

bigiain 10y ago
Nope - only the business plan - my Pro Plan (which they rebilled two weeks before announcing this change) has also just broken all its public folder links...)

27182818284 10y ago

I was definitely notified at least once. I think I can recall two emails.