I tried setting the site to PHP 8.2 and noticed that the data under "UBB.threads News & Announcements" disappeared so I set it back to PHP 8.1 and abandoned any experimentation.
On several webhosts, switching from php versions may switch your php.ini settings to default oob/unconfigured settings. In your new php version, re-enable (turn on)
allow_url_fopen to allow data linked from external sites to be displayed. This will get that section back up and running for you again
https://www.php.net/manual/en/filesystem.configuration.phpUBB.threads 8.0 is compatible with PHP 7.x, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3.
compatibility matrix
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