User blog comment:Lost Labyrinth/Wikia removing support for user-to-user email next week/@comment-1997588-20140220172457/@comment-1519608-20140220174649

The page that Lost Labyrinth linked to at the bottom of his blog (on Wookieepedia) gives a staff explanation:

''To be honest, yes, we are removing EmailUser. Its use is very, very low and the number of bugs with the implementation we have installed is high. With private messaging on Chat and Message Wall making it easier to contact users on-wiki, we have decided it is best long-term to remove this extension from our wikis. I understand this may upset some power users, but long-term it doesn't fit into our email system, our user communication plans, or our bug-fixing rotation. It's been abused in the past and it's only linked on Monobook. Best to remove it now.''