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Obviously it's not a big deal if you're already intentionally moving away from Google, but one of the oddest things about the legacy free G Suite changes is tha

Obviously it's not a big deal if you're already intentionally moving away from Google, but one of the oddest things about the legacy free G Suite changes is that after months and months of upheaval and uncertainty, they just allowed personal-use users to keep it indefinitely anyway. I half wonder if it was a purposeful scheme to knock out the biggest users and have them "voluntarily" migrate while ultimately not booting off those who waited around and were the most averse to change. But it really didn't feel like strategy, more like lurching between possible ways forward. Google is definitely getting out of all those spaces where it just "generously" allowed free stuff all over the place: obviously the shuttering of many services, but the things like G Suite and Maps billing and the general crackdown on storage... I don't think the economics of the business really required such changes but it's more a philosophical change? Or preparing for leaner times ahead?

skinnymuch 4y ago
Ah crap so I’m going to be booted from gsuite in a year because I upgraded but won’t renew in a year while others will be fine? I barely use it too. Didn’t want to deal with moving the domain email yet.
- zerocrates 4y ago
  They eventually gave just a "tell us you're doing personal use and we'll move you to a new free plan" option. That's what I ended up doing: I figured at least I'd wait until the end of their period to do anything. I don't remember if they offered an option to go back if you'd already upgraded, though. But yeah, this is the basic kind of weird and unfortunate scenario their muddled messaging led to.
  - skinnymuch 4y ago
    I’m sure I won’t be able to go back. This sucks. Are you sure the free plan includes email? I’ll check again Edit: seems like the free plan doesn’t include email? That sucks still but yea nothing else I could do then. I need the super low volume email
    - zerocrates 4y ago
      It definitely includes email. It seems like maybe you can go back even if you affirmatively upgraded? Haven't tried obviously but the Google page about it seems to indicate as much. https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en

skinnymuch 4y ago

Ah crap so I’m going to be booted from gsuite in a year because I upgraded but won’t renew in a year while others will be fine? I barely use it too. Didn’t want to deal with moving the domain email yet.

zerocrates 4y ago
They eventually gave just a "tell us you're doing personal use and we'll move you to a new free plan" option. That's what I ended up doing: I figured at least I'd wait until the end of their period to do anything. I don't remember if they offered an option to go back if you'd already upgraded, though. But yeah, this is the basic kind of weird and unfortunate scenario their muddled messaging led to.
- skinnymuch 4y ago
  I’m sure I won’t be able to go back. This sucks. Are you sure the free plan includes email? I’ll check again Edit: seems like the free plan doesn’t include email? That sucks still but yea nothing else I could do then. I need the super low volume email
  - zerocrates 4y ago
    It definitely includes email. It seems like maybe you can go back even if you affirmatively upgraded? Haven't tried obviously but the Google page about it seems to indicate as much. https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en