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Even G-Suite isn't really getting that much support, it's on life support at best. There's so many missing features and bugs and just painfully unergonomic work

Even G-Suite isn't really getting that much support, it's on life support at best. There's so many missing features and bugs and just painfully unergonomic workflows that have been ignored for 10+ years at this point; the long overdue and minimal UI facelift recently didn't really solve any pain points.

eknkc 4y ago
It is not compatible with a lot of stuff. Can't subscribe to youtube premium family. Can't use android automotive. Can't use this that etc. I switched to my old basic google account for google services and probably move my domains away from gsuite at this point.
- bombcar 4y ago
  I still have the weird issue where I have a google domain with email and stuff, and the same email address is somehow also a separate google account of the personal variety. No idea how it somehow kinda works and when it’ll finally explode in my face.
  - dannyw 4y ago
    This is perfectly supported.
    - skazazes 4y ago
      You would think this, but one wrong move and its all gone. In the process of migrating away from GSuite for my personal domain/email hosting, my had-already-existed-prior-to-GSuite google account was closed., unrecoverably as far as I can tell. I lost a literal lifetimes worth of school and personal work that I had naively assumed was safe, and of course there is no actual support available to a one man closed GSuite account.
  - joezydeco 4y ago
    Get your domain hosted by another service, pronto. You're risking losing everything if Google decides to brick your account(s) by decision or accident.
    - bombcar 4y ago
      I have a backup of my email, and my domain DNS/registrar is not Google, so the real worst I'll be hit with is a loss of email for a bit as the DNS updates.
      - joezydeco 4y ago
        Ok cool. When you said "I have a Google domain" I assumed the worst. Everyone else: do NOT use Google as your registrar. Just don't.
        bombcar 4y ago
        oh no, I hate crossing registrar and other providers, even using (say) godaddy for DNS and registrar weirds me out; too many chances something goes horribly wrong (and then you can't transfer the domain).
- joezydeco 4y ago
  Just got a new car with Android Automotive and this is incredibly aggravating. Maybe it's for the best that I use a dummy gmail account with the service but it just shows I'm paying Google to be a lesser class citizen and maybe it's time to migrate the whole thing.
Paul-Craft 4y ago
Nothing you've said here has prevented the last 4 companies I've worked for from using it, though. One of those companies is a very large, public company. It seems like people are still buying it.
yamtaddle 4y ago
As far as I can tell, Google, culturally, just hates maintenance. Or practically anything that's not a product launch. Ask anyone who's done much development on Android—eternal bugs (I've seen people provide patches and beg to get them applied on bugs years and years old, and be ignored), half-assed implementations of all kinds of things, poor docs often with outdated info, mediocre architectural direction—and that's on a major product! I think it's some combo of an organizational/internal-incentives failure, and a cultural thing where all these "geniuses" they hire can't be bothered to do any boring shit, to include, sometimes, properly finishing features they start developing.
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eknkc 4y ago

It is not compatible with a lot of stuff. Can't subscribe to youtube premium family. Can't use android automotive. Can't use this that etc. I switched to my old basic google account for google services and probably move my domains away from gsuite at this point.

bombcar 4y ago
I still have the weird issue where I have a google domain with email and stuff, and the same email address is somehow also a separate google account of the personal variety. No idea how it somehow kinda works and when it’ll finally explode in my face.
- dannyw 4y ago
  This is perfectly supported.
  - skazazes 4y ago
    You would think this, but one wrong move and its all gone. In the process of migrating away from GSuite for my personal domain/email hosting, my had-already-existed-prior-to-GSuite google account was closed., unrecoverably as far as I can tell. I lost a literal lifetimes worth of school and personal work that I had naively assumed was safe, and of course there is no actual support available to a one man closed GSuite account.
- joezydeco 4y ago
  Get your domain hosted by another service, pronto. You're risking losing everything if Google decides to brick your account(s) by decision or accident.
  - bombcar 4y ago
    I have a backup of my email, and my domain DNS/registrar is not Google, so the real worst I'll be hit with is a loss of email for a bit as the DNS updates.
    - joezydeco 4y ago
      Ok cool. When you said "I have a Google domain" I assumed the worst. Everyone else: do NOT use Google as your registrar. Just don't.
      - bombcar 4y ago
        oh no, I hate crossing registrar and other providers, even using (say) godaddy for DNS and registrar weirds me out; too many chances something goes horribly wrong (and then you can't transfer the domain).
joezydeco 4y ago
Just got a new car with Android Automotive and this is incredibly aggravating. Maybe it's for the best that I use a dummy gmail account with the service but it just shows I'm paying Google to be a lesser class citizen and maybe it's time to migrate the whole thing.

Paul-Craft 4y ago

Nothing you've said here has prevented the last 4 companies I've worked for from using it, though. One of those companies is a very large, public company. It seems like people are still buying it.

yamtaddle 4y ago

As far as I can tell, Google, culturally, just hates maintenance. Or practically anything that's not a product launch. Ask anyone who's done much development on Android—eternal bugs (I've seen people provide patches and beg to get them applied on bugs years and years old, and be ignored), half-assed implementations of all kinds of things, poor docs often with outdated info, mediocre architectural direction—and that's on a major product! I think it's some combo of an organizational/internal-incentives failure, and a cultural thing where all these "geniuses" they hire can't be bothered to do any boring shit, to include, sometimes, properly finishing features they start developing.

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