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

Users hit an error screen when trying to log in.

The mobile app also crashed for those trying to open it.

The popular tracker site saw a spike of reports spike in a short window.

Several reporters confirmed the problem hit different locations.

It was a large outage when looking at user volume.

Reddit staff did not say what drove it straight away.

No explanations came out at first.