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Huh. I thought that was what I had, but I haven't heard this directly from them. It's the first I've heard of it.

I used a microscopic subset of the features. Aside from them hosting my email, I don't think I'm any different from other users. It's just me; I'm not really a business. I notice some differences, mostly in limitations: less storage, features of my Pixel phone that sometimes don't work with that account.

I'll probably upgrade to whatever the minimal plan is just because it's less trouble than any alternatives. I've had this for a very long time, so there's a lot that I'd rather not touch. They're providing a fair bit of value and I don't really mind paying for that.

But I'm surprised not to have heard about this by email. Perhaps I'm on yet another different legacy thing.

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> Perhaps I'm on yet another different legacy thing.

I keep wondering the same thing. Haven't seen any communication at all from Google, so maybe for some reason I don't fall into this thing that is no longer free? They can't possibly do this to me and not even tell me... can they?

I mean they can, but it'd be kinda foolish, we're the people who've been pushing people into their service.

O365 looks pretty decent.

I haven't heard anything yet either. I spend about $5k/mth on GCP so I wonder if they might be making an exception for spenders....

Same. I think they aren't actually emailing us. Lucky I saw it here! We have until May 1st.

It definitely applies to you, if you think it might. There aren't different legacy things like this, just this one. Go to to admin.google.com, click on Billing / Manage Subscriptions. You'll see your subscription is "G Suite legacy"/"Free plan". And you'll see a message "You are on the G Suite Legacy free edition. Consider upgrading to Google Workspace Business Starter [Learn More]".

Click on [Learn More], you'll see the message that "you need to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription to keep your services. The G Suite legacy free edition will no loger be available starting July 1, 2022".

Also the confusing message that "Support availability is rolling out to our G Suite legacy free edition customers oer the coming days. If you do not currently have access to Support, please check back in a few days."

I don't even know what that means, or how to check if I "have access to Support". (I guess I have literally never had access to Support!)

This comment was very helpful, thank you!

This is the first I've heard of this as well. I went to admin.google.com and verified that this does impact me. Glad I check HN I guess??

Thanks for the tip. I went to admin.google.com and I don't see anything there, either.

Maybe it's rolling out?

Sorry I wasn't clear :).

I went to admin.google.com -> manage subscriptions and saw that I am on G Suite legacy, so therefore inferred this does impact me.

Ah, I see it now. Thank you very much.

yeah i also did not receive the email. first i was thinking, maybee because i pay for extra storage with those legacy accounts (100 gb extra) they maybee would not disable if for me. but it looks i just did not get the email yet.

Looks like the information has been added sometime since 2021-12-07 (the most recent web.archive.org snapshot [1]), so maybe it's brand new and the emails are still forthcoming.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20211207200137/https://support.g...

Yeah, I' in the same boat you are.

I dont know if I want to pay six bucks a year for that privilege, per account. I'm giving away emails on my domain too. Most of which are not used.

Six bucks a _month_, per account.

Six bucks per month, per account, you mean.

$6 a year, or $6 a month?

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