seo forums

Hi everyone, I have been noticing that forums and community discussions are appearing more often in Google search results lately. So I am curious, are forums still a useful part of white hat SEO in 2026, especially for traffic, branding, and backlinks? I am not talking about spammy forum...

Please let me know the list of SEO forum software. Its very expensive to buy a forum php software. I came to know about the vBulletin SEO software is it worth. I believe its 79$ moreover if i go for any open source will i have more ads ?:p Thanks VJ