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At Leafly, we wanted to create a fast and friendly environment that provides the everyday user with a helpful service to make those tough medical marijuana purchasing decisions easy. Finding the perfect strain just got made easy. |
Today while browsing Hacker News I came across an incredible jquery plugin called isotope. After viewing some demos it became immediately apparent that this would be a great fit for our strain explorer. When this page was originally built I took some shortcuts to get it done quicker and it worked OK most of the time. As the list of strains grew from 50 at launch to over 350, the number of user complaints grew as well. We had always planned to revamp it at some point and isotope seemed custom-made for us and a bargain at only $37!
I set aside a couple hours and rewrote all of the javascript on the page. It still chugs a bit in IE but there are no more script timeout messages. This was a first pass to get it in, optimizations will continue.
Posted: Tuesday, February 8, 2011