> I completely agree with Will's point that the trouble with all English
> language tea venues on the Net is simply that there aren't enough
> people writing for them. *Every other issue is minor compared to this.

Yes, that's the problem, not enough people, and every forum is getting
somewhat diluted too, so many of them. People also seem to blog more
to their own tea blogs than post on forums.

Maybe in the future, we could have a specially designed tea site that
incorporates blogging, tea forums, photo albums, and a profile page
like Facebook - but only for tea people; and an IM feature; and other
features.

Like I said, Sanzui is quite good now, but they are using off the
shelf software designed by a Chinese company to run the site. I like
it. Very user friendly, and I already have 45 tea friends on my list.
They're adding a chat feature soon too, which means I can chat with my
buddies on there, instead of just sending a shout out. Well, that's on
the Sanzui Cun page, which is separate from the regular forum page.
The forum page is still pretty much as it was before.

One difference with Sanzui though is that many tea professionals use
the site. Tea shop owners, tea factories, everyone in the tea industry
is represented on there. And they use it because it's also part of
their job. Then there are also many tea enthusiasts too.

It's too bad there's nothing on the English web like that - yet.