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Originally Posted by samhu
And speaking about fractions, it has dawned on me that if the discussion about the ending of the classical interface (which started the same time as this one and which on Page 4 states only 1-2 percent use regularly) can garner over twice the number of replies this thread has, we may well be talking about an even smaller fraction of Fastmail users still on a "one-time payment" legacy account.
Anyway, as we are not privy to how many such legacy accounts there are out there, here's a bit of speculation on my part. Pick a number - 1000? 5000? At the lower number, the sum involved would be USD3k/month, and at the higher end, USD15k/month. And that's with a 100 percent conversion rate from "one-time payment" to "subscriber". If this amount is so critical to Fastmail, maybe we all shouldn’t be so smug about the longevity of any of our Fastmail email addresses (or Fastmail's survival). Just a thought.
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Ioneja, it appears you may not be aware that legacy "Lifetime" Member accounts probably make up only a tiny fraction of Fastmail's base . The rather lame reasons that Fastmail nonchalantly provided (and have never further elaborated) for terminating these accounts is available here -
https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/member.html
To many, their reason for the closure of these legacy accounts sounded more like "it's for our convenience", rather than "we need the money for our survival." But then again, they'd be hastening their demise if they were to admit they were running on empty and needed the money.