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I'm looking for a replacement for Dropbox, but it seems that none support direct links, like in Dropbox's public folder (example: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38901452/fox2.jpg ) Is there one?

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The reason is because most of the options; owncloud, btsync, seafile and syncthing dosn't upload to a unknown company server. It only shares the files between your devices. Its a huge pluss when you think about security. The downside is that a device have to be online to share or update the files.

I use BTSync and to avoid the problem i just upload the files to my server and display them under a subdomain. http://pub.volpe.pw/pub/fox_gl.jpg

BtSync also offers a phone client, so to mimc the way Dropbox uploads pictures to dropbox was rather simple. I backed up a gallery on my phone and synced it to my server and symlinked it under the pub dir, as BTSync dosn't follow symlinks.

I don't mind uploading them under a subdomain or such, but I really like how easily I can get a public link from Dropbox. How hard was it to set up?

Once i had setup the subdomain it wasnt hard at all really. I only had a problem where nginx couldnt serve the files from my home dir (i preffer to have the syncing folder there), but it was solved quickly with google and SO.

I just set up a BTSync server with Pyd.io on top, which I can use to generate URL for my file. No manual copying.

I love that public directory feature! I ended up using seafile and just maintaining a copy of a public directory there using the command line client. Works like a charm, very easy to setup.

ownCloud supports sharing links, also direct links to files: https://owncloud.org

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