Dropbox disabling the ability to render html from public files

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Just received an email from Dropbox saying they are disabling this feature on 9/1/2017. This allowed you to use Dropbox as a low-cost, high performance web host for static html content, which has been very useful to me in the past. Seems like a big loss in functionality for no good reason.

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I'm not sure Dropbox really knows what to market themselves/what their usecase is at this point. I guess they don't want to risk being seen as a service for free static web hosting.

I think you can still use Google Drive for this, it's just a bit of a pain/the Drive UI is bad.

I agree. Removing functionality that users rely on is not helping them make their case. They should at the very least grandfather in existing pages and just not allow new ones to be made.

No, Google Drive pulled this functionality a month or two ago.

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