imaBunBun

Making Dropbox Downloadable?

Added 2022-07-17 16:20:05 +0000 UTC

Hiya all buns!
I'm still new to figuring out how Dropbox works best, as this distribution method was only launched a month ago. Some Patreons since then have come forth and told me they enjoy downloading artists contents from their dropbox packs/monthly terms, and are sad to see I have disabled this option for my own folders. I've also been aware that disabling downloads doesn't really do much since you can just right click and save the image anyway. (At least it prevents mass-downloading all the content at once, though.)

So after consideration, I have a new preposition on how I could do things with dropbox. After the end of the month when the monthly package has been completed (same time I re-send the link to all patreons of the current month), I could turn on downloadability of the folder for a week. Letting everyone download the months content before disabling the link afterwards.

I'd let people know when it's available for download by writing it into the message where I re-send the dropbox link to all patreons at the end of the month, and in a post uploaded at the same time marked #monthly_package (which is a teaser for the spesific months contents) so nobody would miss it! (if someone still missed the download-timeframe, I'd re-send them a new link to download the content before expiring within 42 hrs).

This would let everyone get HQ files and I can avoid the link being shared around ^^ what do you guys think?

If most people want it, I'll implement the method already this month.