User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: April 13, 2015/@comment-452-20150413202500/@comment-24757753-20150414122836

I've just noticed this too; bloody annoying. Thank you for the update blog post before the changes this week though, so at least I could figure out why Wikia was suddenly sending blank messages…

> We can see the breakdown of which email recipients use clients that can't view rich text… +1 to 452's comment - perhaps you can see when people use clients that load external images, or people that follow the links within the messages, but I don't know of any way to reliably see those that cannot or choose not to use HTML messages.

> Given that plaintext would entail extra work down the line, we decided not to support it. Surely if you only modified HTML messages, and left plain-text messages exactly as they were, it wouldn't require any extra work from Wikia employees?