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Re: Google ate my email address

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Post by lancewiggs » Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 6:39 AM UTC

larsberg wrote: post #26

scott_s wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube insisted I login in order to watch some movie trailer, so I did so with my gmail account. It then insisted that I give a nickname. I didn't care at the time, as I figured I could just change the name later - surely the only unique ID here is my gmail account. And that's why my YouTube name is skadfjlsakdfjlksdfjl.

Ha! I'm upvoting you because I did almost exactly the same thing in that situation... my YouTube name is lalalalalalalala2334.

and mine "thisloginprocesssux"

Re: Google ate my email address

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Post by bad_user » Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 7:20 AM UTC

alain94040 wrote: post #10

Welcome to Google Hell. I have described my experience here http://blog.foundrs.com/2010/11/15/the-10-step-google-login-... (the 10-step login from hell). I never wanted to have a gmail account. But to use a certain service, years ago, Google required that I create a gmail account. So I did. Then someone invited me to a Google Apps project, so I got another email there. Then YouTube decided to merge my login info wit…

I have a Google Apps account + an older GMail that I use for receiving spam.

And when Google Plus launched, because it wasn't available for Google Apps users, I refused to subscribe using my regular Gmail account, as I could see another instance of Google Hell from miles away. What's interesting is that whenever I bitched about Google Plus not being available for Google Apps, people would tell me that Google Apps support ain't needed and that I should just use a Gmail account.

So really, I also blame users. If not enough users are bitching, Google doesn't have the incentive to change this accounts hell.

Re: Google ate my email address

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Post by TobbenTM » Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 10:39 AM UTC

gerggerg wrote: post #8

Similar situation happened to me: 1) Signed up to have google manage the email for my domain. 2) Tried to create michelle@ domain .com 3) Google failed. Signup process hung. 4) Tried again. App hung. 5) Tried different name. Worked. 6) Tried to add michelle in the admin panel and got: "Username already exists" but there's no way to see, edit, or login as michell. It happens quite often, and remains unresolved for the…

After some hours, I managed to get one domain into Google Apps, but managing 2 domains at a time is a real b*tch. Basically, the only thing you can do with domain number 2 is create users for it. Just about no configuration.

Re: Google ate my email address

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Post by joelhaasnoot » Thu, Nov 10, 2011, 11:26 AM UTC

jasonbarone wrote: post #16

alain94040 wrote: post #10

Welcome to Google Hell. I have described my experience here http://blog.foundrs.com/2010/11/15/the-10-step-google-login-... (the 10-step login from hell). I never wanted to have a gmail account. But to use a certain service, years ago, Google required that I create a gmail account. So I did. Then someone invited me to a Google Apps project, so I got another email there. Then YouTube decided to merge my login info wit…

Note: Google does NOT support merging accounts. I've had a similar experiences. The Youtube merge was a disaster causing many Gmail addresses to be merged with "nicknamed" Youtube channels that users didn't want anymore. Since Google refuses to step in and delete accounts or unlink them, many people are stuck with a Youtube account nickname they don't want to be associated with. This got even worse over the last few…

As jack of all trades I admin the Google Apps account for our company. Recently (believe September or October was the cutoff) Google Apps accounts became full Google Accounts. Before that, you could have different accounts with the same email and possibly password, but being very different accounts. In the process, they merged your Google App Account and the Google Account for your Google App email into one. It worked quite well, but was very confusing and sometimes spit out errors. I've got all four of us moved over, and having Google App account being a Google Account is much more logical.

Re: Google ate my email address

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Post by serverascode » Mon, Nov 14, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

r00fus wrote: post #23

serverascode wrote: post #4

I recently picked up a fastmail.fm account and am forwarding gmail to that, in case gmail effs up.

Be careful, I've created a fastmail.fm (actually airpost.net which is one of their domains) account, and unless you're paying for it, they can and will wipe your account if you leave it fallow/unused for a year or more (unsure what the duration is). This became an annoying problem when I created a seperate account backed by my airpost.net email (won't do that again unless I decide to pay for the email acct).

I am paying for it. :) It's not very expensive, especially if you pick 2/3 year options. That said, the interface is vastly inferior to gmail's, IMHO. What, no conversation view? I can't believe people still use non-threaded email views.