Interesting—because I could swear all my changes on the old design, harder or easier, only took effect from the akrasia horizon forward. In fact, I counted on that, knowing that if I made a goal harder I still had a week at the old rate to get my butt in gear.
So my first question is: is this only true for heavy-hitter Bee Plussers and up, who now have the massive power of the road editor? (cue clashing cymbals and gongs) Or is it also true for people on the Free and Infinibee plans? [0]
Or is this something that recently changed, with the new design?
In any case, it’s probably worth making the behavior crystal clear in the Super Helpful Beeminder User Guide in Plain Language. (Which I believe @drtall was going to write? 
) In all seriousness, I think a one-stop user manual would be a very good thing to create. If well done, I’m pretty sure it would cut down on support requests and reduce the number of newbees who freak and bail.
[0] I went from Infinibee to Bee Plus this week, so that could explain my confusion if it’s a Bee Plus (plus) thing.