Reactivation UI unreachable — /workspace/deactivated renders blank and /admin/billing redirect-loops

Hi all,

Posting this as a UX/technical bug report rather than an account-specific request, since the problem is that the reactivation flow itself appears broken and I’d like to know whether others have hit the same defect.

Reproduction:

  • Loading chatgpt.com redirects to chatgpt.com/workspace/deactivated.
  • That page renders completely blank — no text, no reactivation button, no payment form. Nothing.
  • The documented self-service path (workspace switcher → ••• → Reactivate) never appears, and no “create a Personal workspace” prompt is shown either.
  • The /admin/billing link redirects straight back to the same blank /workspace/deactivated page — an endless loop with no exit.
  • Console shows {“code”:“deactivated_workspace”} and the backend endpoints the UI needs to render the reactivation/payment view (/backend-api/me, /backend-api/settings/user, /backend-api/accounts/check, checkout config, etc.) all return HTTP 402.

So the deactivation state seems to block the very endpoints required to display the reactivation UI, which makes self-service reactivation structurally impossible even for a workspace owner.

My questions to the community:

  1. Is this a known regression in the deactivated-workspace flow? There’s a prior report describing an identical blank /workspace/deactivated page with a DeactivatedWorkspaceModal render failure.
  2. For anyone who recovered from this state — did the reactivation UI eventually render again on its own, or did it strictly require manual intervention?
  3. Is there any supported client-side workaround to get the reactivation/payment view to render while in this 402-locked state?

@OpenAI_Support please help

Thanks for flagging this @mavisan.asairatnam

I've seen a similar report of this behavior before. To help me check this further, could you please share your support ticket number so I can pull up your account details?

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