Well, apparently when I wasn't paying attention they started a superuser
program to help them with support. The superuser's, who probably
reflect management's, attitude runs from you're getting a free service
so shut the f*&k up, to we don't need you people anymore, so go away.
On 9/1/2016 2:48 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Yeah, their choices for image viewing are very lame. Your way is a
huge improvement, for sure.
I have used Lightroom's ability to create html-based galleries and
hosted them in Dropbox and that works great.
I did not realize they had gone through this feature removal before.
Gives me hope, then. :)
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:27 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote:
It may have been accidental, but when I, (and a number of other users),
complained a year or so ago, when that particular feature was disabled,
Dropbox put it back.
I talk up Dropbox whenever people need a place to put smallish important
bits of data, as well as a hosting place for their shared images. I've
gotten quite a bit of free space for doing it, more than I'm likely to need
for my purposes.
I'll probably stop doing that. Here's the difference.
Dropbox's built in way,
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/cresentmoon.jpg
My way.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1604247/PESO/PESO%20--%20cresentmoon.html
Dropbox's gallery view. (create a directory and get that public link).
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mn3ukpjm7byiq8m/AACB9ziBnvN5nW6Zb_GqSs7Ea?dl=0&preview=cresentmoon.jpg
There are also ways to do this through their photo directories, but none of
them give me the simple control to have a Title on the page and the
background display text and the simple hover text that I use to display the
equipment I used.
It seems that photo sharing is more important to them than they let on.
They just don't want the user to control of how content is displayed.
On 9/1/2016 1:51 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
I doubt they'll reverse their decision. The HTML hosting aspect is not
their core business, is most likely an accidental feature/side-effect,
adds a measurable load to their servers, and probably is abused by
"warez" or porn providers. It's also possible they are planning an
internal architecture change that is incompatible in some way with the
HTML hosting so killing it officially now avoids a huge load of
support calls later on.
It's inconvenient, but there are other free places to stuff random
html. Maybe Google Sites would work for you?
https://sites.google.com/
On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:08 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]>
wrote:
Anyone using Dropbox to display their photographs using an HTML page or
for
that matter gallery software such as jalbum should complain. I don't
know
if they will reverse the decision, but it's worth a try anyway.
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