The current owner has a full backup of the forum database before it was shutdown. If that is something you're interested in, you can reach out to him and discuss.
Both the site and the forum were infected with malware on the old site, which, I suspect, is what broke the forum for over a month. Unfortunately, by the time this was brought to my attention, everyone seemed to have moved on.
I was able to restore functionality by switching hosting and cleaning up the malware, but, ultimately, the decision was made to do the redirect.
