OK, let's reset here. We've established that the Adobe Communities module for AEM is no longer available to new customers.  My question is this: What is a good alternative? In other words, if we can't use Adobe Communities because we're a new customer and they won't sell it to us, what solution (thi...

The Communities module exists, but it's no longer available for sale. It looks like Adobe is planning to retire it.

We're starting the process of migrating to AEM, working with an implementation partner to get up and running. As a side project, we're trying to determine how to add the functionality of a typical discussion board/community forum to the new AEM site. At first we thought it would be easy, using the A...