Authentication

Personally, for the sake of CI's future uptake, I agree with you and really believe it is needed. Otherwise things like the very competent and interesting Fuel (and many, many others) will start to look very attractive in comparison.

I downloaded and tested Fuel following reading the above OP, and it does have tons of great stuff in it out of the box. Their SimpleAuth and Ormauth are great, and they allow multiple auth methods to run at once, so you can more easily have a twitter, facebook or site login. Their views can be overridden with a whole host of major template libraries too. Both auth and templates talk to the core through a common schema that makes the core not care who or where the auth is done, or how the views are presented. It is very clever actually. And they allow HMVC out of the box, if you want to use it. Which I think CI could have added quite easily with something like wiredesignz HMVC. Anyway, enough about all that. Just one users opinions about what I think would help to give CI a competitive edge in the framework wars.

Best wishes,

Paul.