# Clean and Beta Versions/Options, Please

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/clean-and-beta-versions-options-please/260>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [November 24, 2014, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/clean-and-beta-versions-options-please/260 "2014-11-24T12:47:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/clean-and-beta-versions-options-please/260/7 "2014-11-29T02:47:54Z")

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> [@mary](#):
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> They have to be able to trust they they can figure it out, and they have to be able to trust that it will work right.

One thing that may help here is if we did a better job of conveying that anytime you go off track and we’re about to take your money, we email you. Just reply to that email if the derailment wasn’t due to akrasia (or however we’d convey that to newbees) and we’ll make sure you aren’t charged. If users trusted that [1] that might go a long way towards solving this problem.

> [@mary](#):
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> how will they know it’s been deprecated?

Deprecated was the wrong word. It’s just tucked away in advanced settings to make clear that you shouldn’t set goals to auto-quit unless you understand what that means. Automatic rerailing is, [we’re convinced](http://blog.beeminder.com/nwo "New World Order blog post introducing precommit-to-recommit as the new universal beehavior"), exactly what newbees need so they don’t derail once and then procrastinate indefinitely on getting back on the wagon. (And of course if you do want to quit, just hit the red Archive button. The real point is that quitting should be super easy to explicitly choose but shouldn’t be the path of least resistance. That’s our hard-won insight about the psychology at play here.)

> [@mary](#):
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> default-hide any that aren’t newbie-friendly

Smart. Of course “terrifyingly advanced settings” signals this pretty well. We just need to reorganize what things are in that section.

Excellent advice, as always!

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[1] And they can! We now have @greatandrandom, @quintrino, @mathir25, @mel, @jill, @pjh, @chelsea, @bee, @alice, and me all chipping in monitoring [support@beeminder.com](mailto:support@beeminder.com) from all around the globe so we can jump on spurious derailments and answer questions.

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