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by trombonechamp 1494 days ago
36 hours too late for me - I deleted my 14+ year old GSuite account yesterday morning. Oh well, Fastmail seems great so far.
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I had been holding off out of laziness but all this does is give me more time before I transition to fastmail as well. Google is not offering any assurances they won't do something similar in the future. And renegging on the free tier I simply use for email has left a bad taste.
That's definitely within a reasonable deletion windowpz but also maybe up against the edge of it - try yelling really loudly (tweet @AskWorkspace, ask contacts/friends, etc, basically move now) and you very well might be able to get it back.

(I see there's an email address at the bottom of the link in your bio FWIW, just in case someone might consider reaching out that way)

Google accounts can be restored for at least 30 days after deletion. Should be quite easy. No yelling necessary.
A, the contiguous unit is 1 month, not 1 day. That makes things a lot less stressful. Good to know.
(Wow I tripped over my phone keyboard writing these two comments. lol)