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Cloudflare offered to keep it running and were turned away: https://x.com/elithrar/status/1948451254780526609 https://x.com/elithrar/status/1948451254780526609
by JimDabell 1y ago
Cloudflare offered to keep it running and were turned away:
https://x.com/elithrar/status/1948451254780526609 https://x.com/elithrar/status/1948451254780526609
Remember this next time you are thinking of depending upon a Google service. They could have kept this going easily but are intentionally breaking it.
- fourseventy 1y agoGoogle killing their domains service was the last straw for me. I started moving all of my stuff off of Google since then.
- nomel 1y agoI'm still shocked that my google voice number still functions after all these years. It makes me assume it's main purpose is to actually be an honeypot of some sort, maybe for spam call detection.
- mrj 1y agoShhh don't remind them
- throwyawayyyy 1y agoPretty sure you can thank the FCC for that :)
- joshstrange 1y agoBecause IIRC it’s essentially completely run by another company (I want to say Bandwidth?) and, again my memories might be fuzzy, originally came from an acquisition of a company called Grand Central. My guess is it just keeps chugging along with little maintenance needed by Google itself. The UI hasn’t changed in a while from what I’ve seen.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- kevin_thibedeau 1y agoMass surveillance pipeline to the successor of room 641A.
- hnfong 1y agoAnother shocking story to share. I have a tiny service built on top of Google App Engine that (only) I use personally. I made it 15+ years ago, and the last time I deployed changes was 10+ years ago. It's still running. I have no idea why.
- coryrc 1y agoIt's the most enterprise-y and legacy thing Google sells.
- thebruce87m 1y ago> Remember this next time you are thinking of depending upon a Google service. Next time? I guess there’s a wave of new people that haven’t learned that that lesson yet.