Hi _______,
We’re always looking to improve the Dropbox sharing experience. The Public folder was the first sharing method we introduced, and since then, we’ve built even better ways for you to share securely and work together with your team.
As a result, we’ll soon be ending support for the Public folder. Dropbox Basic users will be able to use the Public folder until March 15, 2017. After that date the files in your Public folder will become private, and links to these files will be deactivated. Your files will remain safe in Dropbox.
If you’d like to keep sharing files in your Public folder, you can create new shared links. Just make sure to send the new URLs to your collaborators.
In addition to shared links, we have a number of sharing options designed to make collaboration easier and give you more control. To learn more, visit our Help Center.
The Dropbox team
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/16/12/16/2111220/dropbox...
Here's a snapshot of the original letter and a sampling of comments: https://pste.eu/p/Gyvk.html
Despite the fuss, I did keep my most critical links pointed to less ephemeral locations. For me, it's just an inconvenience. But after hearing all this feedback, I have a lot of empathy for folks who didn't know better and are really invested in Public folder links.
If the looming retirement of Public folders will cause you grief, I suggest making some noise about it on social media! Who knows, you might just get lucky and catch the eye of a decision maker at the company. I'm sure if they were motivated, they could come up with a migration solution for the legacy URL's.