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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: gabumon on March 22, 2017, 09:05:15 AM

Title: DropBox Public Folder Change for Bulletin Boards
Post by: gabumon on March 22, 2017, 09:05:15 AM

Hi All.  Don't know how many of you use Dropbox to post pics here, but they changed how their public folders work.  You have to generate a new link because any previous public links you posted are broken. :(

Anyway the second annoyance is that the new link ("shared link") you generate doesn't work by default in MLP Arena (other bulletin board software)

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Web forum software, it seems when using the img codes , accepts the
"https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com......." format of current public folder links ,
but rejects the "https://www.dropbox.com......" format of current links

So you have to edit the image link to remove

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www.dropbox.com and replace it with

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dl.dropboxusercontent.com and leave everything else the same. 

It seems to work, but I dunno maybe dropbox isn't the way to go anymore.

Title: Re: DropBox Public Folder Change for Bulletin Boards
Post by: Taxel on March 22, 2017, 09:33:38 PM

Oh that's annoying. I'll have to fix my Dropbox links on another site. Thanks for the heads-up!

Title: Re: DropBox Public Folder Change for Bulletin Boards
Post by: melodys_angel on March 23, 2017, 08:44:49 AM

Ug.  Thanks for the heads up..this is inconvenient to say the least.