A long time ago we used to have a feature we called the “Daily Digest” which sent an email everyday summarizing all the changes that had been done to your Whiteboard projects overnight.

(This was back before we added Scrum Boards and Task Boards as a feature, when all we had was our patented Whiteboards.)

We never got this feature to work properly: not because it was buggy in a technical sense, but because we could never figure out how to make it a useful feature.

After trying numerous times to tweak it we finally gave up a long time ago.

And promptly forgot all about it.

It turns out that the feature had only been turned off on our server software; it hadn’t actually been ripped out.

We stumbled upon it in an obscure corner of our vast code base recently and were surprised to find it still there, albeit in a “commented-out” form.

Well, it’s gone for good now. It never worked well, it had been turned off for years, and now it’s in the trash…