Lufo, Last Used First Out – jQuery plugin to improve long select menus
Lufo is a jQuery plugin to track the most recent options chosen on a <select> element and display them at the top of the list. Source on Github. “Stop being regionally biased” That’s the subj…
Lufo, Last Used First Out – jQuery plugin to improve long select menus launched on May 9, 2016 with 14 votes, #1,635 of 3,824 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
Lufo is a jQuery plugin that improves long dropdown menus by tracking recently selected options and displaying them at the top of the list. It is designed for developers building web interfaces with extensive select lists, such as country selectors. The plugin solves the problem of menu bias toward certain regions by prioritizing the user's most frequently chosen items, making navigation faster and more personalized regardless of alphabetical position.
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From the sources
Lufo is a jQuery plugin to track the most recent options chosen on a <select> element and display them at the top of the list. That’s the subject of an email we received recently at Highrise . Your current drop down menu for country locations is not very Asia friendly — all those listed at the top of the list are in North America, Europe + Japan. My most frequent country selections are Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, etc… They were right. Our menu is 200 countries long, and we highlight a few, but it’s clearly biased towards that few. But that got us thinking… this isn’t just a problem for Countries, we have this problem all over our app. We have a bunch of menus, many with…from m.signalvnoise.com
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