Which new features do you want the most?

I’d die for an iPhone/iPad app. I understand that a lot of people have iPhones… but I don’t, so iPad compatibility would be incredible.

That and the ability to toggle “gong-fu” brewing style in the tasting note section.

I apologize if any of this has been mentioned before, but I don’t feel up to reading a 31 page thread.

Anyhow – It would be great if the results from text searches had the teas number rating listed as well as the number of reviews-and even better, those results sortable by rating. For example, when I type a search for “Lapsang Souchong”, I get 235 results with absolutely no inkling as to the Steepster score on any of them. I don’t want to have to click on 235 teas to find say, the top 10 or top 25 in the results.

Another thing that would be nice is to make a members’ tea reviews searchable. Many members here have hundred of reviews and a searchable review function would be nicer than having to go through page after page of reviews looking to see if they have reviewed a particular tea (or going through dozens of reviews of that tea looking to see if that particular member has reviewed it).

Not sure if these are the kinds of things that would slow the server down, but they would be nice.

I almost forgot – A “reply with quote” feature would be amazing so that new replies to older thread comments could easily be found and read. For example, if you wanted to comment on something that someone said on page 15 of this thread, you could click “reply with quote” on their post and a quote of their post would appear in smaller type at the top of your post on the most recent page. I’m sure that I am not the only person who has given up trying to find the “new” post on multi-page threads.

I would really like to be able to sort the reviews of a particular tea by date, so, most recently posted first (I guess you’d have to go by the date on the last one if there are multiple tasting notes), and oldest last. Sometimes a new review can be more valuable than an old review that has lots of ‘likes’ (especially for the more ‘seasonal’ teas).

I would love to be able to mark certain discussions as favorites. And being able to “like” discussion posts would be helpful also. Another thing that would be helpful is being able to make notes on our teas without having to share it. I might really like a tea but don’t want to spend 10 mins describing every flavor I taste. Just to be able to say, “yum my fav so far. Buy more!” and not worry about tea describing etiquettes would be grand. Thank you for listening!

If reviews could be sorted by steeping parameters-So many times I look up a tea and all I want to do is see how other people brewed the tea and I have to wade through all the reviews where people don’t bother to fill out the parameter info.

Teas in common-If you click on a person’s profile, it could show you certain teas that you both have in the cupboard or have both reviewed.

An optional list only of tea’s in your cupboard so that you can print it.
Vendor Kudos/ratings, somewhere to leave feedback like we can for tea shops on shopping experience.

It would be cool if we could attach an image to our tasting notes if we happened to snap a shot of the tea we are enjoying.

Mobile app.

Just one thing (trying not to offend anyone/vendors) is trying to limit vendors posting their “deals” or offerings in the discussion messages – like when someone asks about a certain tea or best place to get X tea and a bunch of vendors jump on the post. Not really a feature but I think it would make the site more useful.

This might have been mentioned before, but it would be nice if the tea pages could include an “owned by” or “in these steepsters’ cupboards” function, so you could see who has a tea/how many people. It’d be a nice way to see the most-owned teas, as well as looking for swap partners for teas that aren’t super popular.

I think Steepster would benefit greatly from creating some kind of social share button for websites. Or even perhaps a wordpress plugin!