Featured articles, gallery and shared comments
 

- Featured articles
The chance to can have a linkable slideshow of selected articles rotating in front page.
Wordpress, which is free, has it by ages and it need a one time setup to works properly... like "ok I want only articles came from category x to be shown as featured articles"

- Gallery
Maybe I don't look at the script properly but it looks like there isn't a gallery widget/content manager and this is kinda sad, since it's very important. I only found the possibility to create album as user in blog section... maybe there is a way to can use those user albums like gallery to be shown on articles or section pages but I cannot find it.

- Shared comments/replies between forum posts and promoted articles
Still, maybe I cannot find the option to share comments and replies to the same forum post->promoted to article... I remember in the beta u wasn't able to do that but I dunno if actually they added the option to can do it... I hope so since have 2 different trees to comment the same thing it's something over my comprehension.

Don't complain about this or that please, another forum script like vBulletin recently turned in a CMS exactly as vBulletin did... and it has those features, which I would say they are very basic and a must for a 2010 site. So if they implemented this and people are actually using them I guess I'm not the only one who was expecting to use them in his portal.