I am on GSuite's Legacy plan because of this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17689404 and I was very disappointed with them transitioning to paid. I believe their turnaround has something to do with EU/USA government going after big tech?
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
#72This 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…
You can't rely on Google. This is your shot across the bow, use the extra time to prepare for the inevitable.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#73Whelp screw me for proactively dealing with the situation I guess?
What did you transition to? I recently made an exploratory protonmail account to move my personal domain to but found that their handling of arbitrary mailboxes like the +suffixes is not useful since you have to register each one, are limited in number, and can’t send from them.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#74Whelp screw me for proactively dealing with the situation I guess?
Ugh, same. Edit: I just followed the link from the other comment about contacting support… > To get phone, chat, or email support for your legacy free account at [mydomain.com], you need to upgrade to Google Workspace So I can’t contact them until the “upgrade” takes effect, and I get charged for it?!
You don't need to get in actual contact with support. It's not clear from the linked page, but when you go to the (?) icon on your admin page there's an automated click-through flow to revert to legacy - I just did it for my account.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#75Whelp 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" -- https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217?hl=en#nocost
Why would they arbitrarily limit this to 2022? I converted my account a while back because I had to in order to get more storage, but now I'm punished for giving them money for a year or two? Google is so bad at this!
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not suggesting running your own mail server. Hosts like Hostineer do that for you. Setting up forwarding takes three seconds in a web UI.
I understand, but forwarding in my experience is brittle and rife with it's own problems. The point of paying an email service is to make me not have to worry about it anymore. Gmail is free, and Workspace is $6 per user, Fastmail is $5 per user, etc. If I'm anywhere near $20 monthly, I'd rather pay it to someone to have proper email and no "hacks". I just think it's absurd there is no "family & personal" option for…
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$19/year
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#77So first they’re telling people they must upgrade, then they change their mind and add this option. However, people who have already upgraded because they thought it was the only option are getting screwed now, because they no longer are given this option. I feel like this warrants a complaint with a bunch of consumer protection agencies.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#78This 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…
Yeah this has been insanity. Really poor communication and rollout -- I swear I was one of the last to get notifications within email/admin. I'd gladly pay for the personal service if it wasn't per-user. Though, I'm sure google got a lot of value out of this. I switched myself and many others onto gsuite early on. It was some of their first introductions to the "google apps" that have now become the structure for the…
The fact that such poor communication and process can come from a giant employing so many clever people really makes me wonder. Is it more likely to be incompetence or intentional?
I have a few domains aliased to my main one on GSuite Legacy, with aliased email for friends and family that I brought in with the understanding that it was always free. And now I have to shoulder monthly costs for these people. Or push them out and be doing tech support to help them set up elsewhere.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#79This 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…
You can't rely on Google. This is your shot across the bow, use the extra time to prepare for the inevitable.
This is the answer. Google is a bad partner. Learn from this.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#80Big thanks to tekni5. I've been struggling with a move over to iCloud. I will still work through it, but it is no stress now.