I love cutenews, always have done. Its such a shame development stopped, and some of the mods that were made were truely superb. The power of cutenews is mega, and with the mods is fantastic.
However, I would love to see a version of cutenews developed that takes in mods such as the file upload by FI-DD, advanced image module but to allow picture resize, javascript preview popup as oppossed to window pop up and a way of mass inserting and uploading images for powerful galliers.
Shopping cart integration with paypal or another online payments retailer would be great, social media integration.
I think the job of the support team is actually quite easy, just go to script feedback, look through the posts of the most popular modules and make a version 2.0 of cutenews that integrates all of these!
I really look forward to the future of cutenews, I really hope it can be grown up quickly, as I love it.
Rgds
Paul