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[Garlador]

While Dropbox stopped permitting new users to create public folders about three years ago, they're going to be ending support for everyone else grandfathered in - free and pro alike - in March.

While the site was used to host a lot of forum and blog images, a lot of links created that will cease working were for professional and business reasons... myself included... and I admit being rather ignorant of the alternatives having relied upon Dropbox for so long to host my portfolio and marketing work.

So what alternatives would someone suggest, with any attached pros and cons?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Kyuur]

The most reliable answer is to host the images with an actual webhost of your own choosing. Amazon s3 can be used to statically serve images without a domain like Dropbox but pricing is dynamic. It really depends on your exact needs (storage, bandwidth).

Nothing free comparable really exists to what Dropbox offered; Github Pages for Web but I don't think you can just serve images off of it. Alternatives include imgur and abload.de but I'm not sure I would rely on them for professional stuff.

 

[spyroflame0487]

If you have a Creative Cloud account from Adobe, you can use Behance or MyPortfolio by Adobe. MyPortfolio allows you to sort of design your own website almost, and put your work up and it also creates a copy of it on Behance. It goes vice versa too I believe.

 

[The Technomancer]

Uhhh hold on one sec, does that mean if I send a Dropbox link to someone outside our system they can no longer download the associated file?

 

[Garlador]

Uhhh hold on one sec, does that mean if I send a Dropbox link to someone outside our system they can no longer download the associated file?

All links should be working until March. I think they go dark after that, but I'm not entirely sure about download links.

Dropbox was a godsent to me back in college when I did so much of my work; there is a substantial amount of pictures I link to, and it was free. I'm in the midst of a very costly move, and am currently between jobs, so I'm not sure I can swing a paid image hosting service.

 

[ZackieChan]

Does Trump's fascism know no bounds?

 

[Daffy Duck]

Uhhh hold on one sec, does that mean if I send a Dropbox link to someone outside our system they can no longer download the associated file?

All links should be working until March. I think they go dark after that, but I'm not entirely sure about download links.

Dropbox was a godsent to me back in college when I did so much of my work; there is a substantial amount of pictures I link to, and it was free. I'm in the midst of a very costly move, and am currently between jobs, so I'm not sure I can swing a paid image hosting service.

This change could cause us a lot of problems at work, we all have individual Dropbox accounts with public shares to other people's folders, will we need to change this to a business/team account?

 

[Jotaka]

While Dropbox stopped permitting new users to create public folders about three years ago, they're going to be ending support for everyone else grandfathered in - free and pro alike - in March.

While the site was used to host a lot of forum and blog images, a lot of links created that will cease working were for professional and business reasons... myself included... and I admit being rather ignorant of the alternatives having relied upon Dropbox for so long to host my portfolio and marketing work.

So what alternatives would someone suggest, with any attached pros and cons?

Many thanks in advance.

Contract a web hosting service. They are cheap.

 

[Garlador]

Contract a web hosting service. They are cheap.

I might have to. Still, you couldn't beat "free" with Dropbox... and I'm doing as much as I can right now to pinch pennies following a wedding and cross-state move to Ohio with my wife's college tuition fees starting to pile up.