Thought I would circle back with some follow-up:
Discourse for the win!!!
We’ve just moved forward with our migration. Thanks, everybody in this thread, for all your input!
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Yes, this is very interesting, good to hear.
I would add that Discourse is absolutely unique from all other forum engines in its community moderation features. For a commercial forum with a full-time 24/7 paid moderator team it might be less of a consideration, but for forums where the moderator(s) might not always be available to intervene the Discourse features are incredibly comprehensive for community moderation of spam and troll users. I had to hack together a piecemeal system in my Drupal forum to basically accomplish the same thing that Discourse has out-of-the-box.
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Is this planned to be available for Standard plans hosted here, or would it only be available for Business/Enterprise?
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I’m glad Discourse fulfill your needs 
Are you self-hosted?
Feel free to share your migration experience, and any thoughts or issues you may encounter during or after the process. We’re always happy to read and help 
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We haven’t yet made any decision on that, I’m afraid.
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Did this happen, is it in the pipeline, or did it get dropped?
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I’m afraid it hasn’t made it into the latest dev projects for this cycle so the timeline is still indefinite.
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Been a while, but wrestling with similar decisions, and the issue is that there’s not a built-in CMS for Discourse. I tried hacking together some integrations, but they introduce a lot complexity into the equation. I think for our use case, Invision may be the better answer, but we’re not committed to anything yet.
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What kinds of things were you hoping to use CMS-like features for within your community?
Is this an existing community or something completely new you’re putting together?
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Wow, some of those features are actually really cool.
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Probably should continue this conversation via email, but we’re looking for a modern CMS which allows us to do free/premium content (integrated with the user system of the forums) and pretty much any element of modern content management you could imagine. We’re as much of a news site as a forum, both parts are crucial to us. I tried Discourse + Ghost, but managing the integration with two separate systems is a concern. Really looking for one integrated system.
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Nice to see this thread being resurrected. I’m the original poster and can say after having lived with Discourse that we are very happy we went with this platform over Invision. Any skeptics within our organization have since been won-over.
HOWEVER, I would say that one thing we would love to see added to Discourse (somehow) is a CMS feature that would enable us to completely leave behind WordPress. Right now, we have a somewhat clunky system where half our site is on WordPress and half is on Discourse. What would be better is if there were a way to have topics display on a customized blog-style homepage, with the ability to charge for paid access that could be used to control access to specific content categories.
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You should look at the Landing Pages Plugin
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I looked at this awhile ago, but it seemed incomplete for being able to fully replace WordPress. I’ll read up on it again, but what can you recommend for incorporating a paywall into Discourse?
Same questions… we really need a full-featured CMS, preferably supported by Discourse, or an integration that they would support. I need to focus on content and community and need the tech stack to simply “work”.
Combination of Guest Gate Component and the Subscriptions plugin.