<story><title>Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won&apos;t have a public folder</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/help/16</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpg</author><text>I relied on this &amp;quot;light&amp;quot; publishing for a few things and I&amp;#x27;m quite pissed off. I did not notice any notification on this.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;m SOL with no viable solution to changing those links from documents, bugs, etc., etc.&lt;p&gt;Very very very bad!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>onli</author><text>Oh, they definitely notified their users. There were emails and warnings in the UI, it was very visible. Really, you can&amp;#x27;t blame Dropbox there.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;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&amp;#x27;t change is something they had to know. Boy was I wrong.</text></comment>
<story><title>Dropbox accounts created after Oct. 2012 won&apos;t have a public folder</title><url>https://www.dropbox.com/help/16</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cpg</author><text>I relied on this &amp;quot;light&amp;quot; publishing for a few things and I&amp;#x27;m quite pissed off. I did not notice any notification on this.&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#x27;m SOL with no viable solution to changing those links from documents, bugs, etc., etc.&lt;p&gt;Very very very bad!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hundchenkatze</author><text>I received a notification 3 to 4 months ago and then a reminder about 2 weeks ago. Maybe a spam filter ate it. :(</text></comment>