Why Beeminder likes cumulative graphs

[dreev]

Thanks for bringing this up! It’s not crazy and I like how you’re thinking. I need to think harder about whether I agree. Doing do-less as non-cumulative graphs would be a big change and needs a proper spec or at least some sketches of how the graphs would look and how they’d change from one day to the next, how you can visualize imminent derailment, etc.

@katriel

contrast the yellow brick road (is it still called that?)

For now at least, we’re still talking about “following the yellow brick road” even though it’s really “stay on this side of the bright line”. More discussion on that:

Let's never say "Yellow Brick Half-Plane" again

In the recent thread about jargon, Danny made a promise: oh my goodness, yes of course “yellow brick half-plane” is just a codename, not something newbees ever need to see. … So when the transition is done there will be no concept of “yellow brick half-plane”. It will just be how Beeminder works. Again, the name is only needed for the transition. Then he went and wrote a blog post about the yellow brick half-plane, right where the newbees can see it To celebrate our new te…