Which new features do you want the most?

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m2193 said

Curious on other’s thoughts on this, but also for teas that are the same kind, but different years, maybe have one listing and then a menu where you can select for year? For example, when I was going through my samples from Verdant Tea, some of the teas had like 8 different pages for one tea that just had different production years. In theory, the tea should be similar enough, and potential shoppers like me wouldn’t have to open 8 different links to find reviews, and instead could have them aggregated in one spot. Like how the flavors and notes box works now but with years, so buyers could still make an informed decision.

(FWIW, one of the teas I tried based on the reviews from years back tasted nothing like the reviews mentioned, so production data is helpful to note)

Matt Smith said

This! Something similar to how wine review sites group by producer/varietal and then have subsections for each vintage would be immensely helpful.

The problem seems to me that some teas are repackaged and sold as a brand or blend with no reference to the source/variety or year. How does one classify Great Value black tea? Or Celestial Seasonings Minty Julip? Or the “oolong” from the bulk bin at an asian market or green grocer or local tea shoppe? It’s easy to snobbishly say they aren’t worth tracking, but in reality most tea consumed in the west comes from the big guys with recognizable names. Surely there is a place for them here? Should my Pu’erh be listed by date, manufacturer, storage history, vendor, or recipe? What about my recent review where I bought at a local teashop (in business over 30 years!) but with no real info on the specifics?

Matt Smith said

I think you could have it both ways — have a main page by default, and (if needed) child pages for specific seasonal releases.

Shae said

I would also love to see the option to have the harvest and year added within the main page of a tea. Not every tea would need this, but it would certainly be helpful for those that change from year to year.

LuckyMe said

This feature is sorely needed. Way too many listings for the same tea from different years.

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I think it would be more useful if private messages were ordered by last response time, not by thread creation time. So those threads with new responses would be at the top of the list (like the discussion boards).

Shae said

Oh yes, I second this.

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I think it would be nice on a Tea’s page if your tasting notes automatically showed up as the first one on your screen. This way you don’t have to thumb through pages and pages of tasting notes just to find your previous ones on a specific tea.

Shae said

Is there even any reasoning for the order of the tasting notes now? Wish there was a way to sort them or something.

Agreed! It feels very random.

Random said

Honestly I’ve seen cases where it wasn’t completely in chronological order either. It does feel rather random.

I second Lexie’s suggestion of always having our own at top.

YES. This has always been a pain when I want to find my old notes on a tea.

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I’m sure it has been said before, but checkboxes for your own cupboard for things like “plain/straight black tea” “flavored black tea” “plain/straight green tea” “flavored green tea” etc. I see that this sort of is now available for the tea pages for tea shops… not sure when that started, but I appreciate it!

Shae said

Oh yes, this would be great!

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It’d be nice if on the tea pages that the ingredients inputed showed up in the order they were entered in. Right now I believe that they show up in alphabetical order. (:

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LuckyMe said

Are there any plans to make the website mobile friendly? Navigating Steepster on a mobile device is difficult and entering tasting notes is next to impossible.

It’s 2022 and most of us go online using our phones. Optimizing the site for smartphones would make it a lot easier to browse and post tasting notes.

Jen vB said

Agree! Or an app. There are some good ones out there but I like the community feel of Steepster.

pompberry said

Agreed. I can’t find an app that I like. MyTeaPal doesn’t have the search function that Steepster has and requires me to input every single detail about the tea, instead of just looking it up in a database. I hate that so much.

LuckyMe said

I use MyTeaPal every day and it’s phenomenal for recording tasting notes and looking up my own tea history but the search feature is really lacking. Nothing compares to Steepster’s decade old database of tea reviews.

Now if we could somehow merge Steepster with MyTeaPal and maybe the r/tea subreddit, you would have the ultimate tea app!

I totally agree with @LuckyMe! This would be awesome!

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I have to agree with wanting to use multiple teas in testing, perhaps labeled as “blend” and with room for a list of other teas so you can update once but find similar blends without having to search for every tea used.

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AuntTea said

In looking for tea reviews, for me, it would be helpful to have the black teas in at least two categories, so that the unflavored teas and blends, and the flavored black teas are in completely different categories.

Thank you for this suggestion thread! :)

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pompberry said

I don’t know if there’s already a way to do this since I’m new here, but I haven’t figured it out yet. I’d love to be able to add personal notes about the teas in my cupboard that aren’t visible to the public.
EX: This tea was given to me by so and so; I bought this at this store, etc.

Shae said

Oh I like this idea!

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A working site please :) start a fund raiser. Seriously. I would like to actually partake in building on to this place, but it seems I’m stopped almost every step of the way.

Why not go grab an amazon affiliate membership and link to teas that are available on amazon and grab up some affiliate monies or something?

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