Tom Armitage's dashboard

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.