Change on the internet happens faster than you think.
As an avid fan of new (well maintained) web based software, I’ve noticed a common attribute: it changes often, and it changes fast. Yesterday, Alex and I were testing a twitter application we created. He was certain that his followers were not seeing his replies to other followers and I was certain that they could. It turns out that I had enabled a setting in twitter to allow me to see them. We discovered that 98% of users did not have this enabled. This did not fare well for our application. It was back to the drawing board.
To our surprise, and not even a day after, we received news that twitter had removed that setting completely, and in favor of our application!
If you find yourself wishing that a software feature was different, try again soon, it may just be there next time.