Reddit stopped working for a lot of people on Tuesday, a midweek date.

Users hit a failure screen when trying to log in.

The mobile app also broke down for many of those trying to open it.

The popular tracker site saw a spike of flags spike in a quick burst.

Several reporters confirmed the problem stretched across different areas.

It was a big outage when looking at user impact.

Reddit representatives did not say what triggered it immediately.

No explanations came out at the start.