Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting down sometime in 2020

Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by AceyMan on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:59PM (#18575048)

>>> grandfathered in to the Gsuite service [...]

Ah, yes, ye olde "Google Apps for Domains" (boy, there's a catchy product name ...).

I've got three of them still running: two I rarely use, but the other is the family account and it's got a lot of history in the mailbox.

I'm gonna be effed if/when they pull the plug on us greybeards still rolling on that old free tier.

/Acey

p.s. The new Gmail theme sucks rocks. Anyone have a 411 how to make it look as near to the old style as possible. (tbh, I haven't hunted for an answer, but tacked this on in case anyone reading knows a good blog for that.)

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Re:Source: Google Hangouts for consumers will be shutting do... by X-Istence on Saturday December 01, 2018 @12:52AM (#18575456)

I've got four still running, although 2 are mostly shut down now, I just need to pull the Google Docs. The last two are going to be bigger issues as there is a ton of mail and no good way even for an admin to transfer that mail to a new server.

One being a family account also is even more problematic, they expect Gmail quality web interface and I can't really give that to them.

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