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Comment by qbasic_forever | Hacker News Reader

Just moved my legacy plan over to the 'new' personal use/free plan and it seems fine. Good grief how this wasn't the plan from the very start is just beyond me. I hope the complete trashing of trust and perception with the earliest and most tech connected users was worth it, Google.

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Is there a link to official info on what the new personal use plan entails?

Edit: There's this summary, but nothing detailed so far:

Continue using your custom domain with Gmail

Keep using Gmail with your custom domain

Retain access to no-cost Google services

You will retain access to the no-cost version of Google Workspace services such as Google Drive and Google Meet, and additional Google services such as Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube

Keep your purchases and data

You will retain access to paid content such as movie purchases at Google Play and data stored on Google Workspace

This option is for non-commercial personal use

Google may remove business functionality from this offering and transition businesses to Google Workspace. Additionally, this option will not include support.

What changed? Does it put an additional limit on users or are you still able to add as you were before (up to your existing limit)?

Maybe this really was supposed to be some sort of "shock" to push a certain group over to google's paid services. Or maybe it was just a mismanaged mess.

I don't have any extra users, other than like a few oauth app keys for random integrations. I just use it for my personal gmail and custom domain, and (unfortunately) all of my Android purchase history over a decade plus of mobile phone usage. Everything seems to be working just as before.

yeah, theory 1 was they thought they could get some money out of pushing users to Workspace and didn't get the conversion rate they hoped for.

Theory 2 is they really were developing a GSuite to Google Account migrator and it ended up being way too messy to be workable in the deadline they set themselves.

I cannot figure out how to transition to the non-commercial/free plan. It only offers me an upgrade to Workspace. How slowly is it rolling out?

I guess you weren't a Google Reader user. Join the club :)

Oh I was, and I still have never forgiven them for it lol.

I still remember the day when I read that, when in a bus.

Funny how some (arguably futile) memories stick in.

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