This is not terribly uncommon with open source projects (see the same complaints towards Django's commit process a few months ago).
But CodeIgniter can't accept query strings in its urls? Really?
But CodeIgniter can't accept query strings in its urls? Really?
Yup, you're supposed to use the router instead.
it is switched off by default but takes about 1 minute to re-enable (edit a config file).
the author is overblowing the issue