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That's one posted from Flickr, and another from SmugMug, looking good so far. Next one from the phone....

My point is that site aesthetics are too often dictated by web fashion designed by people with good vision, and often it's more about sleek or standing out in ways that are not conducive to accessibility by people who have limited vision, or who have difficulty with managing scrolling and clicking, ...

Need to find a place to host something like this on the West Coast, and I'd be there in a heartbeat.

Currently drinking some An Ji Bai Cha, spicy and wonderful as usual, this pouch from Jing Tea Shop. Earlier today, however, I enjoyed Fukujuen matcha, prepared by me at home. It feels as much a milestone as the first time I brewed up some green tea with cooler than just-off-the-boil water, and reali...

Each of those gorgeous cups includes its own world to contemplate, so lovely. The green-blue transitions on the oribe are marvelous, so well suited to the rugged carving of the cup that gives lots of places for the glaze to pool and turn into azure watery swirls. And that second tenmoku / oilspot cu...

I was working on some images to post of me making matcha at home in my best chawan for the first time with some tea I brought home from Japan, but first had to wait out the kittens, who suddenly found my tea tray very interesting, and then discovered I had forgotten to take the matcha out of the fri...

More tea followed me home but I only realized as I was unpacking that the cute little containers I bought at Obubu Tea Farm were empty tins, sigh. :x that's a drag. i somehow think that if you contact them and tell them that, they'll send you replacements. let us know if they don't... I think it wa...

>the workflow i had in mind is this though: right now, i have a floating arrow that appears in the bottom right when you're scrolled down in a page. you can click that to auto scroll to the top, and then interact with the menus up there. do you think that's not good enough? It wasn’t obvious enough ...

While I'm busy wishing.....how about an option to 'forget' topics that don't interest you? E.g., if I've reviewed someone's for-sale thread, or don't want to read more grumbling about a retailer I've never done interest with, or just am not interested in a particular type or tea or teaware, and I'd ...

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Sat Oct 28, 2017 11:19 pm

Si Ji Chun Oolong, Spring 2014 from Zhu Shan, Taiwan. From Tea Masters Blog. Super creamy, notes of gardenia and mouth watering huigan goodness.

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Makes my mouth water to look at it an internet away....

Separate point: when I reply to a post, it takes either scrolling up to the menu upper left corner, or several clicks backwards to get back to where I want to be--to the forum home page, or a particular forum, or to unread or active topic displays. It would be nice if those links or a menu linking t...

Yes. Gaiwan, or teapot, or shiboridashi, glazed or unglazed or porcelain or glass, or grandpa-style in the tea bowl: I use all of these depending on the tea and the situation. I use the pots I have and adapt the tea to them at this point, rather than the other way around. Mostly brew vessels have ca...

Thanks for the changes. Usability needs to be given great weight, even at the expense of elegance--remember that this all started with changes to make the TeaChat site *look* better? Regarding font size, I have two points that should be considered very seriously: (1) older users with low vision may ...

I'm back and back to overwhelmed with work, and Photoshop has been unkind (major crash deleting lots of work each time I've tried to get through a portion of my trip photos), so no reports yet. I wish I'd made it to the ceramics center. I was limited by the endurance of my travel companions so didn'...

One disappointment of this trip to Japan: my hotel specifically listed 'tea set' as a feature of my room. So against my better judgement, I did not bring my usual travel Kamjove tea infuser. The tea set consists of one electric kettle (temperature setting unknown; the directions refer to boiling but...