Bummer! That'll throw a wrench in many the way many people I know use to share folders of files.
Always a letdown when a company decides it has to make money. ;)
Always a letdown when a company decides it has to make money. ;)
Dropbox don't seem to be proposing any way to make existing public urls remain public.
Not exactly unexpected I guess - when you put trust in a company continuing to do something for ever, you'll usually be disappointed.
But being disappointed is the time you revisit your decision about whether to keep paying for Pro plans for a service that no longer does one of the things that's important to you.
I don't mind them charging money - it stings when they charge me money then take away one of the features I use and consider important... (I coulda hosted a _lot_ of forum-post-sized images on S3 for $129...)