Elena,
Great questions. Here are just my thoughts:
bxncbx said:Here's where I'm getting lost. If there is just one big list of available seeds and one list of wants, how does that help individual trades? I don't know who is offering what and who wants what.
I'm not sure how to answer this because I wasn't intending for it to be one giant list of seeds. I was hoping that each swap would have a 'general listing' of seeds by all members, but that by clicking on an individual member's name/profile, you would see just
their list of have/want seeds.
bxncbx said:
Also, how can I add a plant I've never heard of to my wish list? Part of the fun of swaps is discovering a new plant that you'd like to try. If people only offer me things based on what I have on my want list I'll potentially be missing out on new plants, introductions, etcetera just because I never knew they existed.
I would hope that everyone would feel free to offer things that might not be on others' lists. I certainly wasn't intending the wish lists to be something people had to stick to exclusively. To further highlight the opennness for different types of seeds, this could go back to the part I suggested where there could be a little 'General Info' message for each member. In it, you could say something like "Feel free to offer me things that aren't on my wishlist" or "open to ALL native wildflowers", or "I'm only looking for seeds for edibles", etc...
