Thank you @nathank for getting me up-to-speed on these plugins.
I was imagining Category Previews, and Advertise activity in a private category (discourse-category-lockdown) seems very cool too — especially the Google SEO aspect. I just see people having issues with Category Previews based on certain settings they’re using that I don’t understand yet, which is making it all confusing and stopping me from creating my self-hosted installation.
Honestly there’s a massive market for paywalling content, I’m surprised Discourse doesn’t make this possible with their Subscription plugin:
Show private paid Categories to all > when unpaid users click, present a description/preview of the paid content > give them an option to buy.
Or am I missing something?