Hello all,
the instructions from Google say:
"If you’re a G Suite customer, Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. "
Does this mean that to keep a G+ Community going, one could simply purchase G Suite with the Google Account used to create the Community?
the instructions from Google say:
"If you’re a G Suite customer, Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. "
Does this mean that to keep a G+ Community going, one could simply purchase G Suite with the Google Account used to create the Community?
No it doesn't Eric Féron
ReplyDeleteFirstly, you can't "upgrade" an existing account to a GSuite one, nor can you transfer anything about any Google account to any other Google account, GSuite or otherwise.
Secondly, although you could transfer ownership of a Community to a GSuite user so that the Community would continue to exist, only the posts in the community that were originally posted by GSuite users would survive the closedown.
... And afterwards, probably only GSuite users in the same email domain as the GSuite user would be able to see the content of the community. However, I am not certain on this, as I do not have GSuite.
ReplyDeleteWalter Roberson Existing members of a non-domain restricted Community will still be able to see it, regardless of their own domain.
ReplyDeleteAs a GSuite user, I can still create a Public (and non-domain-restricted) Community, or one that I can restrict to members of my domain.
ReplyDeleteCreation of new communities was disabled for consumer users a while ago.
Julie Wills Does that mean that someone could create a plainly G+ community intended to be a place for G+ members to join and remain together. There's a cost, of course, and perhaps administration.
ReplyDeleteBut is this a possibility? I positited the same in a long thread with the starter of the Mass Migration community. Perhaps the I dial entity would have to be structed as a corporation to do the admin and promotion.
There are some typos in your postStuart O'Neill , so I'm not clear what you're asking.
ReplyDeleteI do know that GSuite members of existing Public Communities will still be able to see each others' posts after 2 April, as long as the community is owned by a GSuite user.
What is less clear is how GSuite users might be able to find Communities that have owners outside their own domain, or indeed find other G+ users from outside their own domain, unless they have the Community or User's URL.
If you're asking whether it's worth paying for a GSuite account to be able to continue using G+, I'd suggest probably not.
G+ itself will be changed to make it more suitable for business users. In particular, Circles and Collections will be removed.
And of course, the vast majority of G+ users simply won't exist any more, so you'd be paying a lot of money to be able to talk to yourself.
G+ will be a walled-in community like MeWe with no public posts visible to the outside world.
ReplyDeleteAnton A That's your assumption, not a fact.
ReplyDeletePublic posts are visible to people without a Google account now. I see no reason why that would change.
What will be different for current consumer users is that you will have no UI to interact with posts - just as you don't now, if you view a post in an incognito window without signing in.
Julie Wills I've been told by some of the moderators of this community that your post in this new G+ environment won't be visible without signing up for an account. You can't see them without an account in other words. I assume that these moderators are well informed so I go by what they say.
ReplyDeleteAnton A I am a moderator of this community, and I also have a GSuite account (this one).
ReplyDeleteWhen the announcement about G+ closing down was first made, we were assuming that GSuite users would not be able to interact with other GSuite users outside their own domain.
Since then, the product team have changed some of the plans, and we the official (G+ Product Experts) have been explicitly told by the Product Manager that this is now not the case. For evidence of this, see the announcement about what will happen to Public communities owned by GSuite users.
I don't have any information one way or the other about whether you would be able to view a Public post using its URL, but I am not going to bet on invisibility at this point.
Sorry you statement is confusing. Either members of GSuite can interact freely or not is the question. Paying $5 a month isn't an issue usage abilities are a concern.
ReplyDeleteObviously at this point you can post from your GSuite account to G+.
Therefore you can freely interact with all of the G+ membership.
(I recognize much of GSuite is corporate and those employees would not be public members but captive to the company account.)
Is it your statement that a change in product now allows a public, (such as yourself), GSuite user to interact with all other public members of GSuite?
GSuite domain Admins can already determine whether users within their domain can interact with others outside the domain or not.
ReplyDeleteGSuite users who are currently members of Public communities will still be able to access those communities as long as the community is owned by a GSuite user after 2 April. Posts by GSuite users within those communities will not be deleted. Posts by consumer users within those communities will be deleted.
That information is in https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229693
In addition to that, I have been told that I have asked whether GSuite users will, in general, be restricted to interactions within their domain after 2 April, and the answer was no. I have no further details, other than what's in the announcement.
Re-reading the announcement, it does say that posts in those communities will only be visible to GSuite users, which is an interesting definition of "Public", so we shall see.
support.google.com - Important changes to Google+ for G Suite due to the consumer shutdown - G Suite Admin Help