GitHub, the widely-used code hosting and developer platform, experienced significant disruptions on Wednesday, affecting its website and various services. The issue, which stemmed from a change to the platform's database infrastructure, has since been resolved. GitHub reported that all services are now "fully operational" as of 8:26 PM ET on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, users attempting to access GitHub were met with an error message stating that "no server is currently available to service your request," accompanied by an image of an irritated unicorn. The outage affected several key services, including pull requests, GitHub Pages, Copilot, and the GitHub API.

The incident escalated quickly, with GitHub's first status alert posted at 7:11 PM ET. Shortly after, more widespread issues were reported, leading to over 10,000 user complaints logged on Downdetector. NetBlocks, an internet monitoring service, also confirmed the global nature of the outage at 7:13 PM, highlighting that GitHub was facing international disruptions.

GitHub, which has been owned by Microsoft since 2018, addressed the problem by rolling back the database changes that triggered the outage. Although the company has not provided further details, it assured users that all systems are back to normal.

The outage serves as a reminder of how critical platforms like GitHub are to developers worldwide, and how quickly disruptions can escalate when core infrastructure changes are involved.

Update as of August 14th: GitHub has confirmed that its services have fully recovered from the major outage.