falafel

Here I am hoping that Pages would be advanced so that people can start removing wordpress and move to Pages all together. ?

how can I do replicate that Signup widget?  is that any specific widget from the marketplace?

As mentioned in the article, it ships with the 4.2 core software already. You find it in the front end “block manger” as System → Guest Signup Widget. 

Please ensure that the ability to promote the forum topic of a database entry into a front page article works, retaining all the comments for the thread, frontpage article and database.
Thank you.