Over the years we’ve been running Open Food Network we’ve been working tirelessly to build the tools that food enterprises need to succeed. With our tiny, part time development team working remotely in the UK, Australia, Catalonia, Portugal, Philippines and France and people running food enterprises in (in alphabetical order) Argentina, Australia, Catalonia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, USA and Wales we’re working together to build common infrastructure to power our food sovereignty!

For much of this time we’ve focussed on features like subscriptions, and product import. But the time came for us to spend some time focussing on some of the underlying infrastructure. We needed to make major upgrades to the performance of Open Food Network and the underlying systems that mean that Open Food Network is secure and resilient. This has taken a huge effort from the Open Food Network team over the past year, meaning that we’ve delivered fewer features than we would have liked. But we can now start to reap the rewards:

We’ve also put some key efforts into the user experience. The menu bar is now a better experience on mobile. Carts now save for later when a user logs out. A huge number of smaller, annoying things have been updated.