> I'm just not sure what the intermediate steps would be to get something usable like a vBulletin… Once you have an archive, you can convert that unstructured

> I'm just not sure what the intermediate steps would be to get something usable like a vBulletin… Once you have an archive, you can convert that unstructured data to structured data. For example, if I look at https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=326241 https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=326241, the thread title and hierarchy is in <table class="navheader">, posts are in <div id="posts">, etc. I see an old project (https://github.com/IanLondon/detectorist-scraper https://github.com/IanLondon/detectorist-scraper) that may be a useful place to start, and I imagine there have been other similar efforts. Once you have a structured representation (in a database, in JSON/XML files, etc.), you can decide whether to use it to build a static site, to import it into other forum software, etc.