I had a chat with Peter about what to do with this place. Basically the three things holding back an upgrade are one, we'd lose the custom themes that we've all grown accustomed to. We did find some new themes that can be customized to acceptable standards, but it wouldn't ever 'be the same' as it were. But IMO that's the price of modernization and Peter agrees that some of the themes have potential.
Secondly, Peter absolutely positively wants to keep the blogs. I've looked into that as well and there are ways to archive the old blog posts as threads and there are plugins that can take over the blogging functions for Xenforo (if we go down that route). It's going to take some trial and error to see if the migration can be done properly though.
And thirdly, of course there's the issue of finance. A new software license costs money, a proper theme costs money, the blogging plugin costs money. All one time investments but a sizable amount non the less.
Peter is currently on holiday though and will return somewhere early January, so there will probably be more details then.
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