I was hoping Dropbox being the most popular one wouldn’t drop the ball but they all do, eventually. I have previously used other services, some of which have closed down and migrating was an absolute nightmare.
It was this convenience that caught got me on board in the first place. This is much better than using cryptic public links humans cannot understand. The cool thing about Dropbox’s public folder was that you could generate links manually using the local file path, and I had a script to do this automatically (Ctrl+G on a file in my Dropbox folder would copy the public link to the clipboard). Seriously, there are alternatives but migrating would be very time-consuming, requiring users to back-track each file and then right-click each file individually to copy a cryptic public link. I know many including myself who would happily pay a small fee just to keep all the previous work. It’s possible Dropbox plan to suddenly take back this decision and say “ok if you buy a subscription you’ll be able to use the public folder as in the past, but if and only if you pay”. Not sure but this could be a strategy to get non-paying users to buy a subscription. I understand that HTML content might have been misused for fraud / phishing stuff, but scrapping the whole public folder just makes no sense. I don’t quite understand the reason for this change. However i’m not looking forward to checking my 5000+ answers and 8000+ comments on UA and replacing the links. I already search for alternatives which hopefully last “longer”. I also used my public folder to host all my computercraft scripts / programs which can be downloaded by a package downloader script i made, Even this one isn’t that important, it’s also quite annoying.
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I’m not a pro user but i have my DB account for a very long time and have still access to the public folder feature. Besides those images i also hosted example scripts / projects and many webplayer / WebGL example builds which already do not work anymore. A lot of these images are linked from several answers / comments i’ve posted. I host 100+ images in a sub folder of my public folder.
I’m an active member of the Unity Answers Q&A site.
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