On 9/4/2016 11:50 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Brian Walters wrote:
On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 09:21 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
October 3 is what Dropbox tells me for my account. They may be phasing
the change in.
Thanks, Bruce. It looks as if I'd better start moving those galleries.
Fortunately I have some personal web space that should be able to cope.
It's a pity that Dropbox is dropping html support - it was what set the
service apart from other cloud-based storage sites. But, it was free so
it's difficult to moan too much.
http://xkcd.com/1150/
There is a small difference. Chad doesn't seem to be allowing the XKCD
character to actually store his stuff with permission.
Dropbox had an implicit arrangement with it's free users, to wit, you
give us free publicity, and we'll give you a free service, part of that
was "the more people you sign up the more space you get, the other was
you get use all our paid features, with the only limitation being the
amount of storage.
When they implemented their gallery view for images, a couple of years
ago, HTML rendering through public links, was disabled. After users
complained they put it back. So they're now they're removing an
acknowleged feature, not a bug, and not just for free uses but for
everyone.
If they want to end part or all of free service it's their business, but
even paid subscribers have been complaining about the end of HTML
rendering through public links.
The reason seems to be that there are two abuses that have been noted,
one), some users have been hosting malware or using client side
redirects to link to malware sites, and two), some users have been
hosting entire commercial websites. Both those actions /must/ violate
their terms of service agreement, though I haven't read it in a long
time and really who actually reads those things anyway. There are other
options that would solve the problem, however the easiest is to disable
HTML rendering through public links, since they already did that through
their web interface. It's kind of like removing a hangnail with a meat
ax, (OK worse than a hangnail, but I just loved the simile).
That's not to say you can't display your photographs through Dropbox,
you can, you just can't control what people see but have to use their
interface, which in my opinion sux. I mean sux in two ways, one I can't
use my little trick of showing the equipment I used in hover text, and
two their interface basically sux.
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immortality through not dying.
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