[Lascaille]

From a quick flick through based on that link, the issue seems to be that the forum code is bespoke and written in perl, and the environment (apache & mod_perl, nothing great, nothing terrible) is obsolete and nobody who's volunteered to port it in the past actually followed through.

[bombcar]

Maintaining a working forum is obviously a chore, but converting it to read only pages could have been worth it.

[Gigachad]

archive.org is that readonly form.