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Fast Technology reported on August 15th,GitHub, the world's largest code hosting platform, suffered a global outage, and Copilot was also paralyzed.

According to the latest reports, the outage affected the GitHub website and many of its services, including pull requests, GitHub Pages, and the GitHub API.

However, according to a status message released by GitHub on the evening of August 13th, Eastern Time, the company has rolled back the database infrastructure changes that caused the service interruption and announced that the service has been fully restored.

During the outage, visiting the main GitHub website displayed an error message stating that no servers were available to respond to requests.

Data from Downdetector showed that more than 10,000 users reported being affected, and internet monitoring service BetBlocks also released a message confirming that GitHub had experienced a cross-border service outage.

Some users joked that app developers could take this opportunity to "fish openly."

Since GitHub was acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion in 2018, the number of users has grown from less than 40 million to more than 73 million. However, some users have reported that the stability of GitHub's services seems to have declined after the acquisition.slip.