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

Users hit a blank error on the site.

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

Downdetector saw thousands of complaints surge in a short window.

Several newsrooms confirmed the outage covered different areas.

It was a major outage in relation to user volume.

Reddit officials did not say what drove it straight away.

No explanations came out at first.