How about some site updates to go with that fancy new contest?
First off, in case you haven’t seen the green banner on the site, the discussion topic or all of our tweets and facebook updates :), we’re running a contest! We’re giving away the ultimate holiday tea bundle, worth over $825 and featuring the beautifully-designed Sorapot by our friend Joey Roth. Head on over to the contest page to see all the prizes and details. We’ll pick one lucky winner shortly after the contest ends on 8PM this Friday, December 18.
Our second gift to you: site updates! Along with the usual bug fixes, we’ve added the following, based on some of our most common requests:
Comment Moderation
Now you can delete comments from your own tasting notes (via the individual note’s page), or delete your own comments from other peoples’ tasting notes.
If you need to edit a comment, just write a revised comment and delete the old one :)
Shopping List and Cupboard Sorting
Exactly what it sounds like. Just click the dropdown to sort by Most Drank, Company Name, Tea Name, Highest Rating or Date Added. This should make it a bit easier to sort through those long lists and vast cupboards:
In fact, I just used this to coordinate my first order from Upton Tea Imports, thanks to your recommendations.
Bold and Italics
You can give pretty much anything you write on the site extra emphasis by wrapping words in asterisks to make them *bold*, or underscores to make them _italic_. Give it a try (but not here, they’re not enabled for the blog :)
More Control over Email Notifications
The “Email me…” section on your Account page now has a few extra checkboxes to let you specify which things you want to get emailed about.
We disabled some of the less-important ones by default since we ourselves are overloaded with messages already, but if you want ‘em, you got ‘em!
Your feedback is appreciated, and your Steepster Overlords wish you a safe, warm and happy holidays!
Jack
