# New design: please bring functionality that was removed

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-design-please-bring-functionality-that-was-removed/2606>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [October 19, 2016, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-design-please-bring-functionality-that-was-removed/2606 "2016-10-19T08:47:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![grayson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/grayson/32/1336_2.png) [@grayson](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/grayson)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2016, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-design-please-bring-functionality-that-was-removed/2606/4 "2016-10-19T09:33:15Z")

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Thanks for that!

Okay, so perhaps part of the problem is that slugs used to just be the internal gizzard hook, and you had a title where you could put the user-friendly version of what your goal is. So everyone who created goals before the revamp had different parameters for what made a good slug than we’d have now, when the slug will also be our user-friendly reminder of what the heck it is we’ve committed ourselves to.

So that just requires an adjustment in expectation on existing users’ part. Now we need to balance _short-n-sweet_ with _sufficiently informative_ for new goals we create. I can get on board with that. (\*)

But:

1. That leaves our old goals with slugs based on the old parameters, which are often not so awesome as display values.
2. What happens if I use up “the right” slug on a goal I later quit because I didn’t set it up in a way that worked, but the underlying goal is still one I’m committed to? We’ve discussed before how it can take a few tries to get a goal set up in a way that works, especially when you’re new to BM, and having to stick with the same graph when you’ve figured out that the units / commitment need to be pretty different from what you started with is honestly kind of a no-go. (\* \*)

(\*) As long as we can easily see our fine print on the goal. I know we can see it now if we click on the `Settings` tab, but I would very much like the fine print to move to the `Statistics` tab, as described in [this post](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-design-goal-description-fine-print-not-shown/2590/2?u=grayson).

(\* \*) Which brings up a question: if we delete an archived goal, does the slug become available for reuse? That could remove this particular thorn.

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