GitHub, the popular code repository and developer platform, is recovering after dealing with some major issues on Wednesday affecting its website and many GitHub services. The company is rolling back a “database infrastructure change” that it believes was the cause of the issues, according to its status website. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018.
When we first published this story, navigating to the main GitHub website showed an error message that said “no server is currently available to service your request,” but the website was working again soon after. (The error message also featured an image of an angry unicorn.) GitHub’s report of the incident also lists problems with things like pull requests, GitHub Pages, Copilot, and…