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by mattnewton 1236 days ago
I think they are talking about some change to workspace effectively breaking the service for them. This has some precedent (with the old “dasher” personal accounts having growing pains for some people migrating IIRC) but also seems like a very low risk.
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jxf 1235 days ago
What are the "dasher personal accounts"? I haven't heard of that before and search results seem to think I'm asking about DoorDash.
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mattnewton 1235 days ago
That was the internal name for personal paid gmail - I honestly cannot remember the nondescript word combination they called it publicly, but it was rolled into Gsuite which is now google workspace and google decided they wanted to focus on business users instead.

I think this is a relevant article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-relents-legac...

Anyways, basically agree that gmail isn’t going anywhere, just a gmail-related story of people depending on a new flavor of gmail/ google identity that was being migrated messily.

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buggeryorkshire 1235 days ago
GAFYD (Google Apps For Your Domain)

I used this for 10 years or so before realising they'd moved the backends as they were planning the workspace thing and they were separate - you couldn't share between the two, loads of features missing etc .

Typical Google - all the ideas, no execution.

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