Their revenues and userbase grew at an astonishing speed.

The company was one of the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley, because of customers appreciated their simplicity and ease of use. It was nothing like anything I had experienced before. When I fell in love with Dropbox, it had not even launched. His sentiments reflect my feelings about Dropbox, as well. And if you are just signing up, add another five steps. Like me, he too had thought that 'in the beginning, Dropbox was great, but in the last few years, they started to bloat up.' He visually shows that as an existing customer, you need to jump through a dozen hoops to get Dropbox going on a new machine. It's also useful for bb style forum posts where you can link to images with an easy tag.Veteran journalist Om Malik, writing on his blog: I was reading Nikita Prokopov's blog this morning and came across his very visual damnation of what is wrong with Dropbox. (Save file to my public folder locally, syncs, right click, get publick link, paste.

It is one of the most useful features of the service for me as I use it to get links to single files that I can send to people without setting up shared folders and requiring them to have dropbox accounts. Just make sure to send the new URLs to your collaborators. If you’d like to keep sharing files in your Public folder, you can create new shared links.

After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Dropbox Pro users will be able to use the Public folder until Just heard from dropbox that support for the public folder is ending.Īs a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder.

What is a dropbox public folder