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Many essentially ordinary Google account holders were incentivised to convert their accounts into domain (now G Suite) accounts for e-mail purposes. However, th
by komadori 5y ago
Many essentially ordinary Google account holders were incentivised to convert their accounts into domain (now G Suite) accounts for e-mail purposes. However, this has always had adverse consequences because many Google services don't support domain accounts and there is no way to undo the conversion (see https://support.google.com/a/thread/129862070/wind-up-organization-but-keep-accounts-how?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/thread/129862070/wind-up-organi... ). This just burdens those users further.
The failure of Google to offer a way out of this trap means it must be politically and/or technically difficult. I used to work at Google a few years ago and I can substantiate that everything is politically difficult and I've seen enough of the way domain accounts were implemented to believe it could be technically difficult too.
- CydeWeys 5y ago+1 to it being technically difficult. I think it's a Gordian knot or different systems that's too entangled to ever cut.
- hendersoon 5y agoGoogle already has a mechanism to convert EDU accounts to standard gmail accounts. So most of the work is already done, it would just need to be tested, UI and docs written, etc.
- Johnie 5y agoAfter spending years at Google, the one question you need to ask for these types of "features" is who is going to get promoted for it? It is such a promo-driven product development culture.
- hackmiester 5y agoI work at a university. How do I do this?
- jacquesm 5y agoWell, they do have the option to simply leave it as they promised to do originally.
- daveloyall 5y agoI'm sure it's terribly difficult. Back in the day, you couldn't sign into two google accounts at once.. But even back then, in 2006, they were begging users to get themselves into this situation. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30011523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30011523