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Comment by dageshi | Hacker News Reader

Whelp screw me for proactively dealing with the situation I guess?

ABP - Always Be Procrastinating

Especially with Google, they have the sort of high level decision making that is only sustainable if you are constantly drowning in cash. You need to give them a little time to come to their senses. Let the bad PR soak in a bit and work its way up the reporting chain.

"If you transitioned to Google Workspace after January 19, 2022 and used G Suite legacy free edition for personal use, you can contact Support"

-- https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217?hl=en#nocost

Why would they arbitrarily limit this to 2022? I converted my account a while back because I had to in order to get more storage, but now I'm punished for giving them money for a year or two? Google is so bad at this!

You migrated for more service.

This is aimed at people who migrated because Google announced that the previously free service would now be paid.

You paid because you needed more than the free tier.

Not saying you can't feel left out, but this announced path is about undoing a very specific thing, that you were not a part of.

Ahh ok thank you, I will look into that.

I'm really happy they waited until I finished the transition and deleted my account. Otherwise laziness might have kept me from moving and it really was the right choice.

(I went to Fastmail and have been mostly happy so far)

What did you transition to? I recently made an exploratory protonmail account to move my personal domain to but found that their handling of arbitrary mailboxes like the +suffixes is not useful since you have to register each one, are limited in number, and can’t send from them.

Fastmail is a really good choice. I've been happy with it. I use a wildcard for my personal domains, so I haven't tested how +suffixes work.

Migadu works wonderfully, and also allows address rewriting so you can use something other than + (which is blacklisted in some places).

Ugh, same.

Edit: I just followed the link from the other comment about contacting support…

> To get phone, chat, or email support for your legacy free account at [mydomain.com], you need to upgrade to Google Workspace

So I can’t contact them until the “upgrade” takes effect, and I get charged for it?!

You don't need to get in actual contact with support. It's not clear from the linked page, but when you go to the (?) icon on your admin page there's an automated click-through flow to revert to legacy - I just did it for my account.

Why do you feel like being screwed up?

You got rid of Google, you migrated to something that suits you better, you will not worry next time Google try to pull this stunt again.

In my book, those are 3 positives, not a screw-up.

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