I don't want Google Suite. I don't want Google Workspaces. I want plain old Gmail with a custom domain.
Google kept moving the goalposts and now they tell me that I'm a freeloader for not paying for the features I didn't ask for.
Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
641–650 of 1001 posts
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#642Earlier quoted context omitted.
Five months is not short notice, full stop. Even three months I would have a hard time thinking of any reasonable argument. The length of time you've used a service is irrelevant, the question is how much of a lift is it to switch, and nothing on Google Apps would take you anywhere near 90 days to switch out of. I pay something like $65 or $70/yr for O365 Outlook for a personal domain email, and the email is the only…
I found out because I saw it on HN, this page was posted on googles side, last month. How many people have not even been told yet? I'd be happy to pay them 120 bucks a year for what I'm getting now, 10 email accounts, of which, one sees actual use.
Same here. Question for anyone that knows: do I have to pay to keep my gmail account that I only use to manage my GCP services? (Auth)
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#643Google should be the one paying ME to use their GMail with ALL THINGS THEY HAVE LEARNED ABOUT ME from my emails.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#644Thank you Google for providing me with a free service for a lot of my domains for so many years, and thank you for the final push to switch to Protonmail, which I was considering for a while now, but didn't do because of the price.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#645I don't want Google Suite. I don't want Google Workspaces. I want plain old Gmail with a custom domain. Google kept moving the goalposts and now they tell me that I'm a freeloader for not paying for the features I didn't ask for.
This is exactly how I feel, and now I'm not sure where to move because I have 8 domains configured and services like ProtonMail want me to pay them for every domain (which just makes no sense to me, I can't figure out how the code that makes this a costly problem looks, my guess is it's a money grab tbh).
Sure I don't often use them all, but it comes in handy at times to be able to quickly use a different domain.
Been looking at Tutanota, but not sure how I feel about being required to use their clients.
Any other good suggestions?
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#646Well, shit.
My home town has a tiny hobbyist theatre group. Their shows have like 30 people in them max, and half of those are family and friends.
I set up a G Suite for them to handle email, because it was - you know - within their budget of 0€.
There's no fucking way they can start paying 12€/user/month. That's more than they make from a show :D
Any alternatives with reasonable pricing for ~5 people?
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#647I'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…
Look, I'd gladly pay something but 60 dollars per month, every month? I'd be happy to pay 120 dollars a year for the service I'm getting now. Like one of the parallel commenters, I have given out accounts on my domain. I dont really need any more service than I have now, I don't need the full google workspace, I just want gmail on my custom domain, thats all really. The most annoying parts of this, google, the compan…
> I don't need the full google workspace
It's honestly just a chore, many things don't work using G-Suite accounts, like taking part of a Google Home family with Gmail users, or signing in to Android Automotive (yes, I had to make a new account to be able to sign in to my Polestar 2 because my account is a G-Suite account), I would be HAPPY if they "downgraded" me to Gmail with custom domains and charged me a few bucks a month for it.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#648Apple has a custom domain for email with their Cloud+. Guess I'll be switching to that.
My main problem with iCloud is that when I first started using Apple products, I used my own email address as my Apple ID. Later I registered a separate Apple ID with my desired username @icloud.com when they became free, but before it was possible to create an @icloud.com address on your existing Apple ID. Now it's impossible to merge these two and I don't really want to dig myself into a deeper hole by creating some randomword@icloud.com on my primary Apple ID just to be able to use the iCloud+ custom domain feature.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#649I'm definitely getting screwed over by this. I've hosted close friend's and family's email for a decade now on an old G Apps instance. We only ever used it for email on a custom domain. It was most useful because I could reset passwords for them if they forgot it. Now I'm going to have to figure out what to do. Microsoft's Family offering is way better (not saying much considering Google doesn't have one). Right now…
>But I have no idea what the migration of a decade of email across 5 inboxes will look like; not to mention Calendar and contacts.
Painful. I know first hand. It is no surprise that these companies make migrating out of their services as painful as possible. This is why I treat personal services like I treat business services now: if there isn't a realistic exit option, I don't use it. There are just too many examples of services being cancelled, accounts banned, and prices jacked up unreasonably.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#650Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can handle setting up new email that still uses the domain. The issue is all the data/purchases/etc with the Google Apps account that can't be transferred to a regular Gmail account.
Add "Cloud Identity Free" to your subscription, seems to have let me keep all my purchases. (I canceled my legacy subscription today to avoid future charges)
It seems it's not possible to add "Cloud Identity Free Edition" to your account while the legacy subscription is still active, and I don't want to risk cancelling it before the deadline in case it has other unintended consequences :(