User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-436956-20100903203921/@comment-35301431-20100905174344

Since I am in the process of building up the wiki I adopted, I have no use for half the widget features. But as mentioned by Kirkland22, the reason why I hardly used anything from the widget because I never bothered to look for it.

If other wikis are using it, then let them have a code option to continue using it. Larger / Popular wikis are frequent targets of spam and many editors, so if this Shoutbox thing is a faster way to communicate, then I am not sure why it should be completely removed.