# Derailing in 2 hours but goal is orange not red

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-in-2-hours-but-goal-is-orange-not-red/2214>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [May 25, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-in-2-hours-but-goal-is-orange-not-red/2214 "2016-05-25T10:35:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![peppertoni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/peppertoni/32/913_2.png) [@peppertoni](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/peppertoni)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-in-2-hours-but-goal-is-orange-not-red/2214/1 "2016-05-25T10:35:30Z")

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I just set up a goal to test the the Slackbot zeno polling to a channel. I had to guess how to do that because there’s no write up about it. Just a little hover text telling me to type in the channel name, not including the hash, would have given me the confidence to set it up without doing a test goal.

Anyhoo, I set up a goal with zero safe days and was greeted with this:

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/9/973aa5c19af57d12d189a38cb931bf7416a228ec.png)

Methinks it really ought to be red.

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**Author:** ![peppertoni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/peppertoni/32/913_2.png) [@peppertoni](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/peppertoni)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-in-2-hours-but-goal-is-orange-not-red/2214/2 "2016-05-25T10:39:14Z")

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Hmmm, now it says this:

![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/5/57859f0f3f676bb8fff5f35f9d66e0c10824277a.png)

I didn’t add any data in between the screen shots.

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**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-in-2-hours-but-goal-is-orange-not-red/2214/3 "2016-05-25T16:20:47Z")

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If you _just_ created the goal and refresh the page a bunch, I think you can sometimes see some odd things happening as the goal creation dust settles. At least I hope that’s it! Otherwise I’ve never seen Beeminder get confused between red and non-red colors.

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**Author:** ![peppertoni](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/peppertoni/32/913_2.png) [@peppertoni](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/peppertoni)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/derailing-in-2-hours-but-goal-is-orange-not-red/2214/4 "2016-05-26T05:05:27Z")

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Interesting. It was a very fresh goal.