As a primary user of vBulletin and IPB2, I was shocked to find that the messenger tab / dropdown was removed from the userCP, and the only place to reference to it is through the username dropdown (as far as I can tell).
Personally, I think that everything that influences the user's experience on the forum should be present in the UserCP (IPB2 showed recent posts, attachments; then had a nice clean left side column that had all of the options).
The issue is that given the new features of the messenger, I would imagine that the messenger would be difficult to fit within the "My Options" / "User CP" menu.
So I would like to open this up to discussion. Any thoughts?