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

Users hit a failure screen while browsing.

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

Downdetector saw thousands of complaints jump in a small timeframe.

Several newsrooms confirmed the outage spread across different time zones.

It was a big outage when looking at user reach.

Reddit spokespeople did not say what triggered it straight away.

No answers came out at the start.