The GitHub website went down a few hours ago and remains offline, after a system failure to store data. However, the site is very close to being restored.
Based on location, users worldwide are experiencing issues related to speed, resource usage, connection errors, etc. Some users also complained that the commitments of the last 4-5 hours are not reflected on the website.
According to the status reports published by the platform, the problem started on Sunday around 4 p.m. US West Coast time.
Many users received a “What‽” error this morning. In the meantime, the platform’s engineers are working to fix the data storage system issue that has frozen the site.
Recently, the EU approved Microsoft 's $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub , and as expected, many users are not happy with this development.
