Tom Armitage's dashboard

I'm not sure the confidential document or your girlfriend getting changed count as Noticings; as we point out in the rules, Noticings should be publicly visible, and I'd argue that both of those things are not visible to members of the public.

Much as we'd like to help, I'm not really sure the fault lies with the Noticings game - and, even if it did, the items described above would not be valid noticings.

Tom's right. The game really isn't about volume, and we're working on ways to ensure that volume isn't the key to success. For instance, that's why we emphaises the weekly score rather than the overall score; anyone has a chance to do well in a given week, but obviously players who've been noticing for longer will always have a bigger total score.

That said: we like to keep Noticings nice and relaxed, personally, and wouldn't want you to feel you have to notice loads of things! Keep it fun for you, would be my top-tip ;)

Make sure you've added "localhost" to the list of domains for the kit (in "Kit Settings, top-right in the Kit editor).

and

make sure you've republished the kit. That last step was the one that I was missing for quite a while.

I like both those ideas. I'm going to think on them a bit, though, and work out the right way to do things for Noticings, but yes, thanks for them! We'll see what feels right.

That's a nice idea. I think also something indicating general volume of noticings over the past few weeks might be good. I'll have a think about how to include something along these lines; thanks for the idea!

What Tom said. When we began the beta, the people playing were roughly doing what we hoped they'd do, and it was all turning out OK; now that it's open, a lot of people are uploading noticings without really thinking about the quality threshold that much. See also what Tom said about bulk uploads.

But that's OK: it's a design in progress. I think placing more emphasis on the images, and less on the scores - especially on that front page - might help emphasises the quality issue. We certainly know we've got some serious visual design to work on, and I'm planning to make that a priority in the coming weeks.

Rest assured: we're working on this. And thanks for the interest. In the meantime: the best way to help stem any "dirge" that might set in is to upload really "good" noticings; play the game in a gentlemanly manner, even if that means not getting as many points as you'd like.

I'm not an E user, but I was irritated by the automatic message from my friends who are trying it, and I'm sure they wouldn't have sent it if they had a choice.

Worst of all, they've typed their password for another service into E, which is a major security problem - the "password anti-pattern" Jeremy mentions - and the E website doesn't make it nearly clear enough that in order to use this service, you must hand over your credentials for other services. It's couched in way too much fluffiness - users should understand the seriousness of what they're doing when they sign up to E.