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by Dysiode 5321 days ago
I like the idea so I'd like to share my thought processes as I used it.

Firstly, I had a basic idea of what it probably was having heard about the hack involving file hashes a while back.

While it gets permissions for my entire Dropbox I was aware it only interacted with my Public folder. That's fine.

After signing up it wasn't obvious what to do next, even with the random link. I searched for a file that's in a folder with no luck. My first random file is one of my own. through that trial and error I figured out it only interacts with the top-level folder.

Personally, I organize my public folder. In fact, I have a "persistent" folder that I use to link to, to imply the links are largely non-transient. I'd love to be able to index folders of my choosing.

If you redirected to a page to control that it would be immediately obvious what's shared and what's not.

EDIT: As an aside, I found some pretty neat files I'd forgotten about!

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Thanks for the feedback. Yeah - it only links with the top level foler - basically for simplicity of design. As explained here : http://uberzet.com/sharing-more a possible use of folders within your Public folders is to 'hide' files from Uberzet.

Anyway - there are obviously some pretty gaping holes in messaging and functionality. If I have time in the future I may fix these things up. Again, thanks for the feedback!