Reddit stopped working for a lot of people on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.

Users hit an outage notice screen when trying to log in.

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

Downdetector saw a spike of complaints jump in a brief span.

Several newsrooms confirmed the problem covered different areas.

It was a noticeable outage when looking at user reach.

Reddit spokespeople did not say what caused it right away.

No explanations came out at first.