Thousands of Reddit users reported outages Tuesday, with DownDetector showing nearly 29,000 reports of issues accessing the social media platform. Thousands of Reddit users are reporting Tuesday afternoon that the social media platform is not working for them. On Down Detector, a platform that tracks such outages based on users reports, more than 15,000 Reddit users are reporting problems with accessing the platform. As of this writing, there are close to 29,000 users reporting on Down Detector that Reddit is not working for them.Representational. (Unsplash)The data on Down Detector showed that 80% of the Reddit users who reported problems on Tuesday afternoon complained that their app was not working. 9% complained that their feed or timeline was not loading, while 7% complained of server connection problems.The graph of reported Reddit outages on Down Detector shows that the outage started around 4:15pm EDT and straightaway jumped to close to 29,000 reports within 15 minutes. As this writing, between 25,000 and 3000 users are reporting issues with Reddit, the graph shows.The number of Reddit outages reported in the US in the last 24 hours. (Down Detector)This story is being updated.Shamik is a journalist covering the United States for Hindustan Times. He has more than four years of experience reporting on US politics, sports, and major breaking stories across fast-moving cycles.