Adding collaborator via API results in invalid invitation being emailed

[MohammedLaher]

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If we add an outside collaborator via API the email get sent to collaborator but when they try to accept invite it says invalid invite when they press the Accept Invite button. It works if invite initiated from GitHub UI.

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[frankie567]

+1 on this.

We have a GitHub integration on polar.sh, which allows people to sell access to private GitHub repositories. It has worked flawlessly for months.

For a few days now, we have reports of users hitting the "This invitation is invalid" problem. It doesn't seem to hit every users. Some users are even able to accept invitation for some repositories, but not others.

polarsource/polar#6628