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

Users hit a failure screen when trying to log in.

The app version also stopped working for users trying to open it.

Downdetector saw a wave of flags spike in a quick burst.

Several news outlets confirmed the disruption spread across different locations.

It was a major outage by any measure user impact.

Reddit officials did not say what led to it straight away.

No details came out at the beginning.