Hello! Beeta is now deployed. But fear not - there’s a way to backburner goals, though it’s slightly different. We added basic tagging, which should allow for not only backburnering but a lot of other goal organization.
It’s sort of soft-launched (read: hidden) right now, but if you go to www.beeminder.com/tags you’ll see a list of your goals. You can add a tag like “backburner” to any goal you like, and then if you append a list of tags to the hash of your dashboard URL - https://www.beeminder.com/apb#foo for example - it will only show goals with the tag foo.
If you go to https://www.beeminder.com/apb#foo,bar it will show goals with the tag foo OR bar.
If you prepend a ! character it will exclude goals with that tag. For example:
https://www.beeminder.com/apb#!backburner
Actual UI for this is coming soon, but hopefully this will hold you all over in the meantime!