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Dec 15 2016, 6:24 pm

Bandock

For those who have been depending on Dropbox to provide public link downloads without resorting to sharing, I have some bad news. The public folder will now only be private and instead must rely on the share files feature. This will not happen till March 15th, 2017. This is according to an email I got from Dropbox.

For those who have been trying to provide download links in the current manner, they will no longer. In fact, there is a very high chance Dropbox will now be unsupported by the BYOND client since it will essentially work similar to Google Drive or Rapidshare. This is a very important notice.

When that time comes, I'm removing Dropbox off the partially supported list and moving it to unsupported.

Dec 15 2016, 6:54 pm
LordAndrew	First they removed HTML rendering, now this? I'm failing to see any reason to keep Dropbox around.

Dec 15 2016, 6:57 pm
EmpirezTeam	I haven't even used my Dropbox for any purpose in years.

Dec 15 2016, 7:06 pm In response to LordAndrew
Bandock	LordAndrew wrote: First they removed HTML rendering, now this? I'm failing to see any reason to keep Dropbox around. Definitely agree there. Only thing I could think Dropbox is useful for now is private projects, private shared folders, and personal backup.

Dec 15 2016, 7:19 pm
A.T.H.K	You could use GitHub with a repo containing your host file zip, each time you compile just commit the zip.. Then use https://rawgit.com/ grab the URL and update your hub page.

Dec 15 2016, 7:37 pm In response to A.T.H.K
Bandock	A.T.H.K wrote: You could use GitHub with a repo containing your host file zip, each time you compile just commit the zip.. Then use https://rawgit.com/ grab the URL and update your hub page. Very interesting, I've actually been curious about how to link up GitHub zip files with BYOND. Might give it a shot for SPanimScript since it's already on GitHub.

Dec 15 2016, 8:22 pm In response to Bandock
A.T.H.K	Even better if your source is public, you can use the Release options in Github. https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases/ You can have a "latest" release section so the link shouldn't change.

Dec 15 2016, 10:22 pm
Bandock	Yut Put wrote: dropbox links have never worked in the pager Actually, they did years ago when Dropbox still used the non-secure HTTP. It's once they went HTTPS that it all broke.