{"id":114699,"date":"2014-11-25T12:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114699"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T10:51:36","slug":"takealot-downtime-frustrates-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/114699-takealot-downtime-frustrates-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Takealot downtime frustrates users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takealot has been experiencing intermittent problems today, frustrating users who are trying to purchase some of the retailer\u2019s \u201cTakealot Tuesday\u201d deals.<\/p>\n<p>The Takealot website problems started on Tuesday morning, shortly after the company launched its \u201cTakealot Tuesday\u201d deals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeavy traffic might cause some page loading issues. Please bear with us and continue to refresh in 30 seconds. Deals this hot are worth the wait,\u201d Takealot said.<\/p>\n<p>Takealot apologised for the website problems, saying that it was \u201cworking hard to get it back up and running\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some users reported that it was only the desktop website which was experiencing problems, and that the <a title=\"Takealot Mobile\" href=\"https:\/\/m.takealot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Takealot mobile site<\/strong><\/a> and the Takealot app were not affected.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_114703\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Takealot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114703\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Takealot.jpg\" alt=\"Takealot downtime\" width=\"600\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Takealot.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Takealot-424x400.jpg 424w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takealot downtime<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Takealot news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/111334-takealot-and-kalahari-merge.html\"><strong>Takealot and Kalahari merge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/109248-we-make-a-loss-on-r27000-google-glass-takealot-ceo.html\"><strong>We make a loss on R27,000 Google Glass: Takealot CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takealot has been experiencing intermittent website loading problems today, frustrating users trying to make the most of the company\u2019s Tuesday deals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":106493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2676,35,995],"class_list":["post-114699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-daily-deals","tag-headline","tag-takealot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114701,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114699\/revisions\/114701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}