Which new features do you want the most?

It also occurred to me that it would be nice to be able to mark teas as once-this-was-in-my-cupboard as opposed to what is currently in your cupboard and possibly a way to designate how many times you have bought a particular tea.

A chat bar at the bottom of the site would be an excellent way of making fellow tea-loving friends!

I didn’t even know I wanted this, but I had a dream last night that I went to my shopping list and could check mark the ones I wanted to purchase. One stop shopping! I know this would be way too hard to implement, but I was really happy until I woke up. This might mean I’m spending too much time here…

New here, just exploring the site atm, and have a few thoughts.

I drink tea gongfu style, which means very short steeps and lots of leaves, which also means that

1) The “steeping time” function on a tea is pretty useless, because the minimum is 15 seconds. Since I steep my tea multiple times in any given session and the times will vary, is there a possibility of having a “gongfu style brewing” checkbox and dispense with the steep time that way?

2) Ditto for water temp, which sometimes changes as I make my tea.

Additional feature for the ‘Places’ section, concerning closed shops:
1) have the ‘closed’ status visible on the list page
2) have an option on the list page to show only shops that are open (not closed)
or add open/closed to the ‘filters’.

I finally finished reading through this topic! Whew.
To bump the suggestion(s) and add a small twist – would it be possible to add an (optional?) tab on the user profiles for pictures like a limited size album? Heck – if server space is an issue, just providing a slot to insert an image URL like for the tea images would work for linking to photobucket or flikr accounts. I really like taking pictures of the tea I prepare, the setup I use, and who doesn’t love showing off their armada of teapots and utensils?
I know I’d use this as a way to add tags to teas showing more specific ways of how I’m getting a particular tea to work best.

I would love the ability to rate teaware as well as teas. This seems like as good a place as any for that!

One quick suggestion! You know when you’re writing a review and you add in your water temp and your time… maybe there could be another option for how much of the tea we used? Like 1 teaspoon, 1 and a half, 2 teaspoons, etc. I tend to experiment a lot with it. :)

The drop down menu for choosing who you want to send your PM to is great, because you don’t have to remember the exact spelling of their username or a url or something.

But could it please not be pre-selected to the first person on the list? Like maybe the first one was just a — and then the system would force you to choose somebody if you forgot, like it does if you forget to fill out the subject line.

Because I just totally sent a very long PM meant for someone else to a completely random person…
And I’ve received a few that weren’t meant for me as well, likely because my username starts with an A so it would be near the top for many people who could PM me.

Maybe a way to flag teas that are redundant so they can be deleted, or redirected to the other posting for them? I see that a lot with David’s Tea teas, because sometimes they’re listed under both ‘DavidsTea’ and ’David’s Tea’.