GitPod billing. Did I configure my gitpod account wrong?

Hi there freeCodeCamp users. I recently started database certification and already finished two certification projects. But today when I was planning to start next project as usually I was redirected to gitpod but it told me my usage limit was reached and now I have -21 credits. I signed up in gitpod using my github account. Did anyone else face this issue before, if yes how you fixed it? Maybe I configured my gitpod account in a wrong way and it’s not linked to my freeCodeCamp account? I will be grateful for any help or advice, thank you!

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Welcome there,

Most of this is explained in the guide post: How to Use Gitpod in the Curriculum

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Hello @azimjanovbogdan,
I did experience a similar situation as I was trying to understand what was happening at the time that the course I was taking changed to Gitpod. I explained here what I did to continue, to someone else that suffered the same.

Thank you for the reply. I changed my github email so it matches with my freeCodeCamp email but it still tells me that I reached the limit (

Thank you for your reply. If I understand correctly that means I can continue working on the projects next month when I get new 50 hours limit?

The email has to be different that you were using before. Did you revoked the authorizations you gave it via github to Gitpod ?
You can open a ticket with Gitpod as well.
50 hours limit per month.

At first email was different. Then I checked your reply in the other post so I revoked authorization, changed the email and tried to login again and it still tells about the limit. Let me try to revoke again and change the email address.

The concept is to change the organization in Gitpod as if you were new to them, but you do not want to be “new” to freecodecamp. The organization you see in Gitpod cannot be the same, regardless of the email. Since Gitpod is just an ephemeral environment, you might not care about the organization from their point of view. That’s why, I did the following:
I deleted the Gitpod account.
I changed my email in freecodecamp to reflect a new email change in the github account I was using to authenticate to freecodecamp. I revoked the previous authorization for Gitpod and freecodecamp. I logged out, Gitpod and freecodecamp. I authenticated with freecodecamp using github. You could , alternatively, authenticate in freecodecamp using this email, instead of github. Click the course you want to do and it will redirect you to Gitpod as a new user, using the same github account.

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Thank you. This option seems to be working. I appreciate your help

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Happy learning to code.

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