We have a very beta version deployed for daily beemail subscribers but aren't happy enough with it to give it to everyone...

Was this ever finished?

Oops. I just posted a suggestion to this elsewhere. I'll remove my votes over there and put them here instead. The request was:

Allow an option for the lower and upper bounds of the x-axis to be set as a certain number of days (i.e. entering "28 days", vs. just entering a certain date). That way, if I want to keep the last month/quarter/year in view, I can do that without frequently changing the lower bound of the x-axis on all of my goals.

Good call on requesting an update! One thing we've done as a stop-gap is add fields -- x-min, x-max, y-min, y-max -- in advanced settings (or just x-min in basic settings) as a crude way to pan and zoom. Actually replacing the static image-based graphing with javascript graphs is a surprisingly big undertaking that involves back-end infrastructure and the impacts the Android and iPhone apps. This definitely is eventually happening though!

is there an update on this feature's progress? It has been 1.5 years..

I'd love a way to do aggregations and compute various summary statistics for a period of time in the UI. Like, see the total # of hours I've spent doing a task.

There some useful comments on this related suggestion -- http://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/2593138-render-graphs-using-html5-canvas -- which I'm closing since it's similar to this one, but it will be useful for us to refer to as we work on this.

Now if it could just be kept at 7 days or 1 month or whatever I chose so that the scale of the graph was the same each day. That way I get a better feel for how well I am doing. Sorry, I know this is obvious but just in case :)

awesome!!

There's now a (sorta tedious) way to zoom in advanced settings. We'll figure out how to build that into the interface in a more intuitive way (perhaps just by switching to a javascript graphing library).

yeah i am finding the graph less and less motivating the longer it gets. Because I liked seeing how far up my little graph went when I entered my datapoint. It moves less and less now :( It's only going to get worse.....

That's badly needed now that old data points are no longer taken off the graph after resets.

A "Mirrored Log" scale on the time axis is what I've always wanted in a graph, centered around the present. Far past and far future events would be scrunched, and the recent past & future would be both legible and meaningful. (Not that beeminder has a far-future view, but the principle holds.)

I think it is not some cosmetics/usability thing, but a fundamental feature. I live on the scale of days and sometimes hours so for me motivation decreases in inverse proportion to the graph scale.
Also, if it is possible, I would really appreciate option to disable autosumming and increase resolution on the time scale, so I can see multiple data submissions on one day.
Of course, big picture is still important, but I only need it about once per week. In other words, to maximize usefulness of the service form me, graphs should be scalable and have higher resolution on the time scale.

This is a great idea. I think using Google's finance graphs as a reference for what this could look like would be nice: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ibm

Sounds like this is on its way, but I definitely vote for this --- I only have a couple months of data and already it takes a slight squint to see where I am.

Yeah, the multiple graphs feeding in to each other was a hack. We have a much better way to do that coming soon. It's related to this idea:

http://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/2281054-let-me-see-my-original-graph-even-after-i-reset

Alternatively, you could make it easier / better to zoom in on the last N days of the graph, so you could see the last month or year. In the past they set up multiple graphs with one feeding the other.