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GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
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Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#4236 hours too late for me - I deleted my 14+ year old GSuite account yesterday morning. Oh well, Fastmail seems great so far.
I had been holding off out of laziness but all this does is give me more time before I transition to fastmail as well. Google is not offering any assurances they won't do something similar in the future. And renegging on the free tier I simply use for email has left a bad taste.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#43I'm seeing that option in my account admin page now too. I'm going to confirm mine is for personal use and see how it goes.
Quick and painless. I don't notice any immediate difference, but I only use the core features really. Clicked the button and it came back with the following text and that was it:
>You have chosen to continue using the Free Legacy Edition of G Suite for personal use.
>If you change your mind and want access to premium features, you can take advantage of a special discount by upgrading your subscription in the Google Admin Console.
What a self inflicted mess though since this is what should have been announced in the first place.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#44Just moved my legacy plan over to the 'new' personal use/free plan and it seems fine. Good grief how this wasn't the plan from the very start is just beyond me. I hope the complete trashing of trust and perception with the earliest and most tech connected users was worth it, Google.
What changed? Does it put an additional limit on users or are you still able to add as you were before (up to your existing limit)?
Maybe this really was supposed to be some sort of "shock" to push a certain group over to google's paid services. Or maybe it was just a mismanaged mess.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#45This is a relief. I might still move some of my personal domains off of GSuite, but the fact that I don't have to is honestly a real relief. And I wouldn't even mind paying. If you wanted to charge me just for email without any of the other stuff and not offer support, I'd pay $100 a year if you could give me unlimited (or even 25 or whatever the original number of email addresses was) separate inboxes. But when you…
This is great news for those folks that already were on the GSuite Legacy plan... but it's of zero help for folks looking to set something like this up now for personal reasons.
I own my last name as a domain, and always thought it would be fun to use it for my primary email as firstname@lastname.com. Well... $6 a month for an individual "vanity" email address is already hard enough to justify once you realize Workspaces doesn't give you a "real" gmail account (google assistant, google one, etc... meaning you still need to maintain another gmail address, defeating the point), and then once you have 2, 3, 6 family members also wanting a vanity email address, the cost is just insane.
How is this not something anyone at Google have thought of? Gmail or use business accounts that come with a ton of strings attached.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#46I transitioned my family domain name to a small nonprofit that I created to do donations. If you have such an entity, it's an easy way to opt out of this whole problem. I realize this doesn't apply to most people, but I'm just putting it here as an alternative.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#47This is a relief. I might still move some of my personal domains off of GSuite, but the fact that I don't have to is honestly a real relief. And I wouldn't even mind paying. If you wanted to charge me just for email without any of the other stuff and not offer support, I'd pay $100 a year if you could give me unlimited (or even 25 or whatever the original number of email addresses was) separate inboxes. But when you…
This is great news for those folks that already were on the GSuite Legacy plan... but it's of zero help for folks looking to set something like this up now for personal reasons. I own my last name as a domain, and always thought it would be fun to use it for my primary email as firstname@lastname.com. Well... $6 a month for an individual "vanity" email address is already hard enough to justify once you realize Worksp…
You can easily get hosting for ~$20/yr from classic web hosts like Hostineer and just set up email forwarding to people's personal Gmail and get the same functionality with a little bit more control and flexibility on your part.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#48What a fucking mess. You make the whole world panic, your migration tools are not ready, and then you say "actually, just kidding" and tell everyone who believed what you said that you would delete their accounts (because you basically said their accounts would be deleted), to "contact support".
It's an overused trope, but this was so poorly planned, executed, and communicated and it can only be explained by decision makers actually being on drugs.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#49Whelp screw me for proactively dealing with the situation I guess?
"If you transitioned to Google Workspace after January 19, 2022 and used G Suite legacy free edition for personal use, you can contact Support"
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is great news for those folks that already were on the GSuite Legacy plan... but it's of zero help for folks looking to set something like this up now for personal reasons. I own my last name as a domain, and always thought it would be fun to use it for my primary email as firstname@lastname.com. Well... $6 a month for an individual "vanity" email address is already hard enough to justify once you realize Worksp…
You can easily get hosting for ~$20/yr from classic web hosts like Hostineer and just set up email forwarding to people's personal Gmail and get the same functionality with a little bit more control and flexibility on your part.
Email aliasing is more annoying/error-prone than directly hosted GSuite. I've done both.