Comment by apfsx | Hacker News Reader

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I couldn't have said it better myself. I've been on the legacy account for a decade and giving us a couple months to migrate is a slap in the face.

I don't want anyone to think that this is just a bunch of people who are upset about paying. I'm not upset about paying. I'm upset about Google promising something and then pulling the rug out from under us. I have multiple Google Workplace accounts for my actual businesses and at the moment I believe I spend $3k-$4k USD per year on all the accounts. My legacy account was used as a family account. After this ordeal, I'm probably switching all my paid workplace accounts to Zoho, Office365 or another provider. Maybe this is the kick in the butt I needed to degoogle my life?

I've had mine since the days when I worked at Google. It's almost as old as my Gmail account. I'm pretty disappointed. I couldn't care less about docs and whatnot but migrating my email is going to be a PITA.

Docs is a big one for me. I have a decade of documents people shared with me, or that I've shared and published under known links.

If those disappear, a lot of things people count on will implode.

Not to mention that on the free tier the audit reports are limited, and you can't even get a csv of files shared along with who it's shared with.

That's part of an older dick move on Google's part. They made GSuite free intentionally as insecure as possible. That harm the whole internet.

I simply can't recreate my labels and filter structure on another platform, or even on a personal account, without having some tools.

And I don't know how I can migrate the apps which I've bought.

Yeah. I just moved my family domain to O365 and I’m planning to migrate the business domains I manage over as well. It’s a much better product for the price and business users will be happy. It’s just been so low priority for me to figure out migrations and with this kick in the pants for the family domain, I have a good story for migrations now.

Honestly I think this will end up proving to be a misstep akin to reader.

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