The forums are now live again!
Just so y'all know, if you're wondering about spam, this site is now protected using cleantalk, so far since it was activated on the board, it's blocked 21 different spam bots and it's helping me clean up the board of some past spam posts. If you all see any spam posts, just let me know and I'll have it removed and reported to cleantalk to add to their database.
But I definitely recommend the service to anyone using phpBB and have issues with spam, it works very well.