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

Users hit a failure screen on the site.

The smartphone app also crashed for users trying to open it.

The popular tracker site saw a flood of complaints climb in a brief span.

Several newsrooms confirmed the issue stretched across different time zones.

It was a big outage by any measure user impact.

Reddit representatives did not say what led to it immediately.

No clarifications came out at first.