Derailing Is Not Failing; or, Beeminder Revenue Proportional To User Awesomeness

[zedmango]

@dreev

And providing guidance on dialing in the rate of the Yellow Brick Road to eliminate the common case of setting a laughably easy slope initially – often for lack of data, which Beeminder is about to provide in spades – and never getting around to changing it.

This could be facilitated by allowing the Android app to change the rate… see:

My list of bugs and feature requests

Fix the zigzag for new goals bug new goals don't have zigzag turned on and it takes a few tries to turn it on Fix the adjusting recommit mercy bug Can't adjust default amount of recommit mercy ETA: 19. I would love to be able to see a list of all past derails somewhere. (ETA - already exists!!) ETA: 20. Web interface says “all datapoints loaded” even when they have not all been loaded. ETA: 21. It is annoying to have to go to the website to use the road dial - apparently this used to b…

No road dial on android?

I could have sworn I used to be able to dial my road from the android app, but it’s possible this is a false memory. At any rate it doesn’t seem to be possible now. If this was removed, I’d love to know why. If this has never been possible and I’m just imagining it, this is a feature request My use case is mostly that android is my primary data entry device and todo interface, and I’m most likely to notice if a goal is too hard / too easy while doing data entry or looking at what I ha…

Android app doesn't edit road dial correctly

Thanks so much for the beautiful bug report! Cc’ing @saranli. My feeling is that, especially with the road dial on the website in flux (or about to be in flux), that we should “fix” this by dropping it from the android app and make you do that on the website, same as with the iOS app. In my opinion the apps should have only 3 functions: quick data entry (ok and editing data is pretty nice too), dashboard for seeing status of goals, and reminders. Everything else (road dialing, ratcheting, sched…

Any chance the Android app will be open source? I want to add settings

So I love the Android app - it would be perfect if it just had the option to change all settings for goals. Is there any chance source will be available like the iphone app? I want to add in all the settings so I can change them from the app, and maybe make a grid showing settings for all goals at once.

[kenoubi]

@zedmango

This could be facilitated by allowing the Android app to change the rate… see:

![|20x20](upload://6Xii0JSEXx7tLHgJVU7LMgzfxQo.png My list of bugs and feature requests Bugabee

I totally agree. I’m enough of a power user I just click the button to go to the website, but this is way too unintuitive for a novice. They’ll probably poke around the app a bit, never even look at the website, figure it’s impossible to change the rate, and quit using Beeminder.

[phi]

(or by making the website more mobile friendly which would save you from having this feature implemented 3 times instead of just once)

[adamwolf]

phi’s got the right idea.

[zedmango]

@dreev

And providing guidance on dialing in the rate of the Yellow Brick Road to eliminate the common case of setting a laughably easy slope initially – often for lack of data, which Beeminder is about to provide in spades – and never getting around to changing it.

Seems like the trick will be to distinguish cases where you want a very small slope, like a “get oil change” goal.