It would be impossible to turn the main site into static pages. The whole site is dynanically generated from a database and there are a lot of entries in the game and demo databases. I forget the total but its over 3000 total pages.

The best solution would be to write some code that could pull the directory pages table entries from the existing site and populate the data in a new site running more up to date software. That is something I would love to do. I built the existing site when I had a lot of spare time and learnt a whole new coding language built within the Jreviews Joomla software specifically for this reason. I worked withthe creator and developer of JReviews to create the site directories. I was helping him develop his software as I was using it to make the site and he was impressed what I managed to do with the software. I achieved far more then he ever thought the software could do. But then as I'd been working in new media production for years I had learnt to push a language or software system to I'd limit or to work around limitations. Something I've always found fun to do.

Anyway, it would be a big project fully move the content of the current main site to a new platform. Might even be easier just to start again and build a new site and then manually repopular the entries. But not any time soon.

As for forums, SMF, phpBB and any other free forums are but an option. In being free and open source they are not aecure and only ok for small starting forums.

Xenforo is the best commercial forum platform after I did an extensive test of them all and ac more of research. Xe foro is build by the developers who originally created vBulletin. When vBulletin was taken over during vBulletin 4 years some of the original people on the project didn't like the direction it was heading and left. And they were right. vBulletin 5 is horrible. These people who left wanted to create their vision of that they wanted the next vBulletin to be and created XenForo.

You can see and feel similar ideas in many aspects of Xnmenforo, but it's far more elegantly coded and the UI is far more up to date and cleaner. Most importantly. Most of the mod and plugin devs from vBulletin left after vBulletin 5 turned out to be a mess. They are all now developing addons and mods for Xenforo instead.