Dropbox to kill off Public folders

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Dropbox to kill off Public folders

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Not the public folders! Well, I think they said people with existing accounts will retain their public folders. But still, this will hurt Dropbox in the long run. Everyone loved the public folder.
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As long as I can still share links to my files, I don't really care. I'm sure there's a reason for the change and it would be interesting to know why, but the things I use Dropbox for will be largely unaffected by this.
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Well the main issues lie in the fact it now takes longer to share links, and I don't even think we can share image url links using the new Get Link system (I've tried). Which means if you want to post an image on a forum, like on a mod's WIP topic or whatever, you have to upload to a different site.
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It's a little more complex now, but doable.
1) Get Link of desired image image
2) Open link in new tab/window
3) Right click the "Download" button in the top right
4) Copy Link Address
5) Use that in the Image
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It's likely they realized how much money they aren't making and paying for
Bandwidth so millions of kids can share stuff for free this is a result of a poor business plan I predict they are sold or go under within a year. Used to love it until I learned how to access everyone private files... Which still works lol
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All the Dropbox links are still available because the specified restriction only affects new accounts (for now). As long as this is the case I don't care very much.
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Well thanks for the info TW, that's something at least. One thing though, you can't view the image link itself, it just forces a download. *sighs* So you're forced to link to the Get Link crap.

Of course if all goes well, my existing Public folder will continue working just fine and I don't have to care much.

I still feel bad that new users will get jibbed though.
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I use Photobucket to host images and never need to post such massive walls of text that I refer readers to an external link. Generally my thoughts are vacant enough to fit within GT's 60k characters-per-post,
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