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

Users hit a blank error on the site.

The smartphone app also broke down for those trying to open it.

One outage monitor saw a wave of submissions climb in a short window.

Several newsrooms confirmed the disruption stretched across different areas.

It was a big outage by any measure user impact.

Reddit representatives did not say what drove it right away.

No answers came out at the start.