I would suggest the following in terms of rebuilding:

*Make a spreadsheet of stories that are lost. A google doc spreadsheet would be best for it. I can try to help if needed.
*Contact the forum owner and offer them $50 to try and get the data back. That would likely make it happen faster than it would otherwise.
*Have an alternate site to back up all the stories to.

I will also try to deep dive in archive.org if that would be useful.