Reddit stopped working for a lot of people on Tuesday, the specified Tuesday.

Users hit an error screen on the site.

The phone app also failed for users trying to open it.

Downdetector saw a spike of submissions climb in a quick burst.

Several media outlets confirmed the problem spread across different areas.

It was a large outage by any measure user impact.

Reddit officials did not say what led to it at first.

No answers came out at the outset.