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Dropbox Ending Support for Public Links
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I used photobucket for almost every thread I ever made.
I decided to try Dropbox for the first time for my XCOM2 SG report... I broke the camel's back. Sorry guys.
“The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale.”
Yeah, all of my old threads are going to be sans-images now, no way I'm updating everything. Anyone tried hosting via Google Drive? I'm happy to uninstall Dropbox in protest, I've only ever really used it for reporting here.
December 17th, 2016, 04:12
(This post was last modified: December 17th, 2016, 04:13 by antisocialmunky.)
Can we archive the threads on wayback machine for now?
In Soviet Russia, Civilization Micros You!
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." “I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
They should have preserved public links for files older than the obsolescence date and then prevented new files from being able to use that kind of URL. Bah.
Civilization IV: 21 (Bismarck of Mali), 29 (Mao Zedong of Babylon), 38 (Isabella of China), 45 (Victoria of Sumeria), PB12 (Darius of Sumeria), 56 (Hammurabi of Sumeria), PB16 (Bismarck of Mali), 78 (Augustus of Byzantium), PB56 (Willem of China)
Hearthstone: ArenaDrafts Profile No longer playing Hearthstone. 
Welp. That sucks. And like most of us, there's no way I could possibly go through reports from 3-5 years ago to salvage them - it would take weeks.
So many dead threads.
As a compromise, can't you just copy a link to the folder where all your pictures for a report are located? Assuming your pictures are organized in a reasonable way (by game, and hopefully by turn/group of turns) and/or the names aren't awful, that should make the reports not be completely dead.
This is why I do not believe anyone who says that the private sector is smarter or more efficient than the public sector.
Dropbox was competing in cloud hosting/file sharing against google, amazon, microsoft and host of other companies. For such a service you want stability, stability, stability. That the service will be their and keep hosting your files is the starting point after which user interface, security and other thing come into consideration. This put them at a disadvantage against the giants as they are a smaller more vulnerable company. However, they had one major edge over their competitors: the public folder. This was the easiest system available for file sharing when it came out and a lot of people started using dropbox because of it. This gives both a network effect and a boost to trust from having more users. It also locks the users into dropbox as they would have to change all their links, their programs etc. if they want to switch platform. Today dropbox announces that it will in fact not have its competitive edge, that it will not guarantee that its users links are stable and that its users will have to redo every link just as if they switch platforms. It's very hard to get people and organisations to change their routines for things like file handling once you have enough people accustomed to your product, that is why companies like google, microsoft and facebook can get away with their shit. What dropbox does is really pushing the envelope on driving away customers, like giving you a slap in the face while giving a one time offer to switch to another provider. If you take into account the positive feedback, every customer who leaves makes the service worse/riskier for those who remains, this might actually end dropbox.
My singleplayer balance mod of BTS: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3u6g4b2nfa74qhm...%20mod.odt?
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. Actually improving, as threads going forward will no longer be imageless.
