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

Users hit an error screen on the site.

The smartphone app also stopped working for many trying to open it.

That outage tracker saw a wave of submissions surge in a short window.

Several newsrooms confirmed the disruption hit different areas.

It was a major outage in terms of user complaints.

Reddit spokespeople did not say what caused it immediately.

No explanations came out at the beginning.