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!

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