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

Users hit a blank error on the site.

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

One outage monitor saw a spike of submissions surge in a brief span.

Several reporters confirmed the problem stretched across different locations.

It was a big outage by any measure user volume.

Reddit staff did not say what drove it at first.

No details came out at first.