GitHub is down
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge
GitHub, the popular code repository and developer platform, is currently dealing with some major issues affecting its main website and many GitHub services. “We suspect the impact is due to a database infrastructure related change that we are working on rolling back,” GitHub wrote at 7:29PM ET on its status website. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
When we first published this story, navigating to the main GitHub website showed an error message that says “no server is currently available to service your request,” but the website now seems to be working again. (The error message also featured an image of an angry unicorn.) GitHub’s report of the current incident lists problems with things like pull requests, GitHub Pages,…
