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Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by alias_neo »

chimprich wrote: post #142
mgraczyk wrote: post #49

I'm a Google employee who just found out about this. I'm not annoyed that I have to pay, it's been ~13 years of free service and I don't think Google is obligated to continue providing this to me. The annoying part is that Google doesn't provide any migration tool, but there are migration tools for Google Edu accounts so that graduating students can migrate their data to personal Google accounts. The software is evid…

> I'm a Google employee who just found out about this. I'm not annoyed that I have to pay, it's been ~13 years of free service and I don't think Google is obligated to continue providing this to me. Well I'm very annoyed. It's not that I might have to pay for a service, it's the unfairness of it. I've several friends and family members up with accounts on my domain to be nice to them to make life easier for them or b…

I think you mean £5000 per year.

I have a dozen or so family members on mine, that's ~£600.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by colinmhayes »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #157
wodenokoto wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’re not using the productivity suite (docs, drive, sheets and whatnot) why not go with the little guy and use Fastmail? $5/user with 30gb or 100gb per user for $9/month Their support replies faster than google :)

Does Google support ever reply???!

Not unless you work for google.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by q1w2 »

gnabgib wrote: post #177

The article title is "G Suite legacy free edition", and is about a service which hasn't been available for 10 years being finally sunset, last day of access 30-April. Wouldn't "G Suite legacy free edition ends May, 2022" be a less editorialized title?

Seems like the "real" deadline will be July 1st - and possibly to the end of that month.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by grishka »

jahlove wrote: post #161
Apreche wrote: post #139

I knew something like this would probably come, but it doesn't make it any better. Complete BS. 16 years ago me and my friends signed up for "GMail for your domain". That's it. We wanted to use GMail, which was by far the best email available at the time, and have email addresses at our own domain instead of @gmail.com. That's it. Since that time several of us have been using our GFYD/GSuite/Workspaces accounts as ou…

> And now we're being forced to pay for something that everyone else gets for free. > Just looks like most of our accounts are going to get deleted or are going to have to pay $6/month for nothing. Am I wrong or are you paying that $6/mo for having the gmail UI in front of your custom domain? Doesn't really seem like nothing.

You can have this exact thing cheaper if you set up a server and forward your mail to Gmail. And you'll also have a server to host a website or whatever else.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by bmarquez »

vesinisa wrote: post #133
yaacov wrote: post #81

> As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers. 10 years of a free product is not bad

Yes, and Hacker News calling it "killing for existing customers" is ridiculous. No service or access is being "killed" here - they are simply asking to start paying for it like everyone else.

One of the problems is that people who paid for Google Play purchases and other services have no way of migrating them to a free Gmail account.

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Post by criddell »

rubyist5eva wrote: post #69
criddell wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of us have been using it for more than a decade. I'm going to look around, but $6 / user / month doesn't seem outrageous to me.

I'm sure they are banking on people just ponying up the cash because they've been with them for so long. It's basically mafia protection payments. Pay us or we'll break your legs (delete all your data).

Do you know anybody else who will give me free hosting for the next 12 years before demanding payment? I think I'm okay with moving once every ten or twelve years.

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Post by thebean11 »

grishka wrote: post #184
jahlove wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And now we're being forced to pay for something that everyone else gets for free. > Just looks like most of our accounts are going to get deleted or are going to have to pay $6/month for nothing. Am I wrong or are you paying that $6/mo for having the gmail UI in front of your custom domain? Doesn't really seem like nothing.

You can have this exact thing cheaper if you set up a server and forward your mail to Gmail. And you'll also have a server to host a website or whatever else.

Isn't it a pain to avoid getting your outgoing emails marked as spam, if you aren't using one of the established providers (google, microsoft, fastmail etc)?

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by edoceo »

bmarquez wrote: post #185
vesinisa wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and Hacker News calling it "killing for existing customers" is ridiculous. No service or access is being "killed" here - they are simply asking to start paying for it like everyone else.

One of the problems is that people who paid for Google Play purchases and other services have no way of migrating them to a free Gmail account.

Or from free into the Paid ones - either move you pay twice.

Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by edoceo »

q1w2 wrote: post #179
yaacov wrote: post #81

> As of December 6, 2012, Google stopped offering the free edition to new customers. 10 years of a free product is not bad

99% of the users of the free product just wanted to have their group/family/etc to use gmail with a custom domain. That product is still free at other providers. We'll just be moving.

It will cost you dozens of hours to move your 10+ years of digital stuff. The big G has done a real pinch here.
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