Github, an online service for software development projects which is now managed by Microsoft is currently down. Many users are reporting speed & connectivity issues.
The issue is widespread & has affected a large base of users. They have taken the route of Twitter to express the ongoing concerns & issues. Have a look at a few complaints down below.
anyone else having speed and connection issues with @github ?
— Tom Hermans? (@tomhermans) April 2, 2020
oh crap, *github* is having issues today. it's all going to shit now
— Bartłomiej Dach (@Spaceman_Atlas) April 2, 2020
on @github I'm unable to edit any issue/PR's labels, assignees, milestone. is this a known regression?
— Christopher Robert Van Wiemeersch (@cvanw) April 2, 2020
An outage tracking website, Down Detector also confirms that Github is indeed going through some glitch & outage in several locations. Have a look at the outage map down below.
So far, there is no official response from Github officials regarding the current outage. However, they are answering to individual complaints as shown in the screenshots above. We certainly hope, their team is looking to resolve the issues at the earliest.
Rest assured, we are keeping a close tab on all the developments regarding this issue. Whenever any update or fix arrives for the same, we will update the column.
