GitHub, the collaborative development platform acquired a few years ago by Microsoft, is currently experiencing a global drop in all its services. The drop It seems to have started around 2 in the afternoon, according to users of the platform.
GitHub is experiencing a worldwide crash
GitHub is currently down for any of its users for about two hours. According to its service status website, all the functionalities offered by the platform present a “performance degraded«. Some of these functions are Git operations, pull requests or API requests, among other services.
The platform informs through this website that they are conscious of the problems that the platform is currently presenting, and that they are investigating the problem. They also mark that they will update the status of the incident when there is new news.
We also found multiple bug reports on downdetector, a very popular website to report crashes of the main services that exist on the internet. On the web they mark that the platform crash reports start at 2:47 PM, and from there the reports that the service has stopped working are triggered.