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Force render issues (raw=1) and shared links won't work for hosting.
images were perfect on all browsers until yesterday afternoon - what is the fix or is this a dropbox issue?
We are rolling out a fix for issues with raw=1 and dl=1 links that started recently. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working.
so irritating and I’m simply going to have to use another host bc this is unacceptable
Mark
Super User II
Super User II
aRealHumanBartender wrote:
so irritating and I’m simply going to have to use another host bc this is unacceptable
That is exactly the issue - Dropbox isnt, and never ever has been, a web hosting tool.
They have (on quite a few occasions now) done things which have stopped things rendering on websites and response has always been the same - Dropbox isnt a hosting platform, its a tool to collaborate and share
Good morning, I do agree with the statement that dropbox isn't a hosting platform. Then remove this https://help.dropbox.com/it-it/share/force-download page.
Really, if it is not intended to allow and manage rendering and download of contents (as a collaboration tool should do, on my personal point of view) then it is ok. I change platform and will not renew my subscription. i don't think Dropbox will care about it. But inform users that this is not allowed and remove pages that explain how to do this.Have a nice day 🙂
torvat-ITA wrote:I do agree with the statement that dropbox isn't a hosting platform. 🙂
I don't agree with that statement. There is no difference between sharing something stored in Dropbox and serving something stored in Dropbox. Arguably, serving as raw=1 takes less processing.
The help page does say that "adding raw=1 to a URL will cause an HTTP redirect", and that could cause problems; but what it appears to be doing at the moment is not simply a 302 redirect (it does do that as well) but actually serving text/html content first. Where a recipient is expecting content-type: image/jpeg or content-type: application/pdf, serving content-type: text/html will cause problems. It's that behaviour which has changed.
A friend of mine demonstrated that an older image he linked to from Dropbox still worked in the animation forum's public page. So I did a test using one of my old Dropbox image links, and sure enough, it still worked. This made me wonder if there was a cut-off date and if only new images were needed for public posting.
So then I went about replacing my Dropbox images in the forum from last week using Imgur as the host. Since the problem started as I posted images last Wednesday, I thought that's where it would end, but then I found broken images in the forum from April.
I read elsewhere that the cut-off could be with images uploaded since March, but I haven't seen this confirmed by Dropbox.
Can someone from Dropbox PLEASE respond?
Regarding using Imgur, I stopped using this service nine years ago, so I had to reactivate my account, verify my email, and change my password. Once I got past that, I was surprised to find images I posted to the forum over nine years ago were still there! Imgur is still a free service so, at the moment anyway, I can recommend this.
Personally, I'd rather keep using Dropbox as a subscriber, but I'm reconsidering now. Just getting any response from Dropbox staff could help me decide.
Thanks i advance for any reply.
This is very distressing, as I imagine others know all too well. I don't want to leave Dropbox but I have to have image hosting. Does anybody have a recommendation for an all-purpose storage and sync cloud service that supports image hosting? I need a terabyte or two of storage. I don't mind paying a nominal fee. Alternatively, is there a middle-man tool that can retrieve a Dropbox image and provide the hosting service?
hi, where do you get this information? could any dropbox staff confirm?
I just put images in my obsidian notes? Dropbox can integrate with notion, why can not be used in obsidian?
