How do you plan on altering the app upon the new forum software?
Don't know when that would be ( does anyone really? ) but I make apps with TDD ( test-driven development ). I will be using the current html as test cases for parsing. If/when new forum software appears the job is straightforward ( although non-trivial ) to make the parsing engine handle the HTML ( replace the old HTML in the testcases with new HTML and make all the tests pass ).