Also, @Spleen, I am still a Software Architect with a lot of experience. I may be able to helo you with some basic features for this site, such as enabling TLS and cleaning up bot data by analyzing trends in post behavior (timing) and generating queries to remove the data. Assuming the PHP forum is backed by an SQL dB. Lmk, ill check back here periodically.
Ive been enjoying Patriot, Ozarks, Succesion and several others. Ive also been playing DayZ, KSP and a lot of Simulators. With a kiddobalmost 6 running around, Minecraft and racing games have been a big hit on the Xbox.