{"id":86687,"date":"2013-09-11T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=86687"},"modified":"2013-09-12T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T06:37:01","slug":"new-mtn-website-plagued-with-bugs-say-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/86687-new-mtn-website-plagued-with-bugs-say-users.html","title":{"rendered":"New MTN website plagued with bugs, say users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a> recently revamped the design of its website, reports from users suggest, with subscribers complaining about newly introduced bugs since Thursday, 5 September 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMTN website has a makeover it seems. Only thing is the [redacted] killed all the existing links so now when you do a web search for something, the indexed pages just result in 404 errors,\u201d a MyBroadband forum member remarked.<\/p>\n<p>One user said that these \u201cnot found\u201d errors have impacted their ability to check their account and bundle balances. \u201cSince they changed the website the link on my router to check the data balance gives a 404 NOT FOUND. EISH!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Navigating to mtn.co.za also results in a redirect loop error, users have commented.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_86691\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86691\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86691\" alt=\"MTN new website redirect loop bug\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MTN-new-website-redirect-loop-bug.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MTN-new-website-redirect-loop-bug.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/MTN-new-website-redirect-loop-bug-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-86691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTN new website redirect loop bug<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another user detailed their unsuccessful attempt to register for an account to use the website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I got an SMS to register on MTN\u2019s \u2018new\u2019 website. I did. Confirmed the link etc. But, when I try to log in, nothing happens,\u201d the user posted on the MyBroadband forum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I tried to send a complaint via their website and the email a complaint thing has a maximum length of two sentences,\u201d they added. \u201cArgh! Catch a wake up, MTN\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>MTN did not answer questions about their new website&#8217;s problems by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>Original forum thread: <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/524062-Why-is-the-MTN-website-so-rubbish\/\">Why is the MTN website so rubbish?<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More SA website and browser news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/86667-big-revelation-in-city-of-joburg-security-flaw-case.html\"><strong>Big revelation in City of Joburg security flaw case<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/government\/86239-r119-6-million-free-state-website-tender-investigation-progressing.html\"><strong>R119.6 million Free State website tender investigation progressing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/85873-south-african-internets-top-dogs.html\"><strong>South African Internet\u2019s top dogs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/85357-browser-wars-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-ie-vs-safari.html\"><strong>Browser wars: Chrome vs Firefox vs IE vs Safari<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/83051-unhappy-fnb-website-users-take-to-twitter.html\"><strong>Unhappy FNB website users take to Twitter<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN quietly rolled out a new design for its website, but its bugs are receiving attention online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":86689,"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":[35,42,20425],"class_list":["post-86687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86687"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}