Just for clarity this doesn't affect directly shared files, only those in the dedicated Public folder, from everything I've read about it. So one can still share/link files publicly so long as you use the Share link for individual folders/files (which is what I do).
The only thing you need to change to make such shared links embeddable is the URL scheme:
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Original:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/<charactershere>/<filenamehere>?dl=0
Replacement:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/<charactershere>/<filenamehere>
Just for clarity this doesn't affect directly shared files, only those in the dedicated Public folder, from everything I've read about it. So one can still share/link files publicly so long as you use the Share link for individual folders/files (which is what I do).
The only thing you need to change to make such shared links embeddable is the URL scheme:
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Original:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/<charactershere>/<filenamehere>?dl=0
Replacement:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/<charactershere>/<filenamehere>
I think it's better to do ?raw=1 as that should give the same results as a file directly linked from public. I've tried messing with the dl parameter but ran into some issues, if I recall correctly.
Just for clarity this doesn't affect directly shared files, only those in the dedicated Public folder, from everything I've read about it. So one can still share/link files publicly so long as you use the Share link for individual folders/files (which is what I do).
The only thing you need to change to make such shared links embeddable is the URL scheme:
More
Original:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/<charactershere>/<filenamehere>?dl=0
Replacement:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/<charactershere>/<filenamehere>
I hope no one will be naive enough to expect Dropbox to keep file sharing the same for the foreseeable future.
They already broke their word from when they told us they were doing away with the Public folder feature "but existing files and links will continue to work". Why would I trust them to host my files now? I have hundreds of images linked many hundreds of times to forums across the web. It's too much work to go and edit all those links; so those worklogs and such will just be broken.
Dropbox has made no effort to provide a way forward for existing files or links and has just said "they will have to be re shared". There are many people affected by this but anyone complaining about it on Dropbox's support community gets their post deleted.