User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-436956-20100903203921/@comment-1915803-20100904004814

I'm sorry, but this is even more outrageous than the mandatory skin change. The Ed, Edd n Eddy Wiki uses the shoutbox daily – some users use it to report vandals for quick notice by the admins, and we discuss other problems and wiki projects often. It's much faster than leaving messages on talk pages. Removing such a wonderful feature such as the shoutbox is actually quite ridiculous!

And I think the reason it may not be used very much on most wikis is because nobody knows where to find it. If you made it more accessible rather than only placing it in the Widgets icon, I think you'd see it being used a lot more.

In short, just please don't remove something as wonderful as the shoutbox.