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

Users hit an outage notice screen on the site.

The smartphone app also failed for many of those trying to open it.

Downdetector saw thousands of complaints surge in a quick burst.

Several newsrooms confirmed the outage covered different locations.

It was a large outage in terms of user impact.

Reddit officials did not say what triggered it immediately.

No details came out at the outset.