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'This user account is blocked. Contact registration@vercel.com'

Clicking 'Continue with GitHub' fails

I am attending the Udemy course React - The Complete Guide (incl Hooks, React Router, Redux)
I have followed the instructions given there.

Video number 347 (at 9:14) instructs me to go to https://vercel.com/signup and then click Continue with GitHub, which I did – several times.

But I always get the same message:
This user account is blocked. Contact registration@vercel.com for more information.

This user account is blocked. Contact registration@vercel.com for more information.

My question(s)

Why did this happen? – How do I get unblocked and proceed?
My ultimate goal is to automatically deploy the NextJS project at https://vercel.com via GitHub.

Clicking 'Continue with Email →' succeeds

After sending a few emails back and forth trying to get support, I didn't feel much wiser, but I decided to click on Login in the top-right corner, and then on Continue with Email →.

This user account is blocked. Contact registration@vercel.com for more information.

After confirming my email address, I got a message saying Sign Up Successful but then nothing more happened. So I did it once more, and this time I automatically got redirected to the Vercel dashboard, https://vercel.com/dashboard.

Getting to the dashboard feels like a step forward, but I still don't know how to proceed. 1

The Vercel dashboard.

References

1 Going back and clicking 'Continue with GitHub' still displays the same old message:

This user account is blocked. Contact registration@vercel.com for more information.

Solution

  • Why did this happen? – How do I get unblocked and proceed?
    My ultimate goal is to automatically deploy the NextJS project at https://vercel.com via GitHub.

    Since you managed to get unblocked, I will focus on building and deploying the project at https://vercel.com. Below I describe what worked for me.

    1. Install the Vercel app at GitHub

    I went to https://github.com/apps/vercel and clicked Install.

    Install the Vercel app at GitHub, step 1.

    Doing so took me to a https://github.com/apps/vercel/installations/new/permissions link.

    Here too, I clicked the Install button – located in the lower-left part of the page. 1

    Install the Vercel app at GitHub, step 2.

    2. In the Vercel dashboard, get the project's code from GitHub

    I was then redirected to a page at https://vercel.com/ saying Installation Approved.

    Vercel: installation approved.

    Here I clicked Go to Dashboard which took me to the Vercel dashboard, https://vercel.com/dashboard – as shown in the last image of your question.

    In the dashboard, I clicked Create a New Project which took me to https://vercel.com/new, with the headline Let's build something new.

    The Vercel 'Let's build something new' page.

    The top-most git repository, nextjs-meetups-demo, is the site I wanted to deploy.
    So I clicked its Import button.

    3. Configure and deploy the project

    I was now taken to a https://vercel.com/new/import page with the headline Configure Project.
    Since I was happy with all the default settings, I simply clicked Deploy.

    Configure the Vercel project.

    After building for 51 seconds, I was congratulated for having deployed my NextJS site.
    Clicking the image redirected me to the React Meetups site, finally proving it was deployed. 2

    Congratulations upon deploying the project at Vercel.

    References

    1 This apparently gives Vercel access to my repositories at GitHub so that it can build and deploy any of my projects.

    2 Unfortunately, my site at Vercel does not display any newly added meetups – even though I can see in MongoDB that a meetup has been created. This would call for a whole new Stack Overflow question, so I won't delve into it here.