Reddit stopped working for a lot of people on Tuesday, a Tuesday in late July.

Users hit a blank error while browsing.

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

One outage monitor saw a spike of reports jump in a short window.

Several newsrooms confirmed the problem hit different regions.

It was a large outage by any measure user volume.

Reddit representatives did not say what caused it right away.

No details came out at the start.