Hobby account + private repo + collaborators = deployment blocked

I have a private repo with a collaborator, the owner of the website, is under my own personal GH account and hosted via my personal Vercel account and it has always worked till last week.

I haven’t changed anything so it must be something on the Vercel side, when he opened a PR today he got this message:

USER is attempting to deploy a commit to the MY TEAM team on Vercel, but is not a member of this team. To resolve this issue, you can:

  • Make your repository public. Collaboration is free for open source and public repositories.
  • Upgrade to pro and add USER as a member. A Pro subscription is required to access Vercel’s collaborative features.
  • If you’re the owner of the team, click here to upgrade and add USER as a member.
  • If you’re the user who initiated this build request, click here to request access.
  • If you’re already a member of the MY TEAM team, make sure that your Vercel account is connected to your GitHub account.
    To read more about collaboration on Vercel, click here.

when I go into my account activity I see this:

The deployment XXX with SHA 801XXXXX is blocked due to insufficient permissions. The github user DELETED ACCOUNT is not part of the team.

does that mean that people with a Hobby account can’t have collaborators anymore in private repos?

Till last week I could see this in the activity:

You (link of the collaborator GH account) deployed XXX (768fb92 in main) to production

Hi, @sebalaini! Welcome to the Community :smile:

Happy to help out here.

does that mean that people with a Hobby account can’t have collaborators anymore in private repos?

Collaboration has never been allowed on Hobby, but a bug allowed some teams to bypass this limitation. Our team recently shipped a fix that ensures our collaboration limits are enforced in GitHub.

Let us know if you have any more questions!

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collaborators in Github were never been blocked before, or at least not for the past year and a half.

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