Hoop.la supports uploading virtually any kind of file- including photos, videos, music, documents and spreadsheets.

To help people find the proper content, you can organize your forums in categories. Forum topics can also be labelled with tags.

Not ready to publish yet? Save what you have as a draft and come back to it later to finish.

Sometimes the activity in a forum can become so busy that important topics get lost in the shuffle. Admins can feature any topics they want to pin them to to the top of the lists. You can feature a topic across all forums, if you wish.

Hoop.la gives you the social tools to make it easy for others to promote your content: one-click buttons for Facebook Like, Twitter, and Google +1, as well as sharing via email.

Each forum can have its own distinct posting, commenting, and reading permissions, allowing you to reserve some forums for only certain authorized members.

Sometimes a topic started in one forum is applicable in another as well. Admins can create a shortcut for such topics in other forums where they'd like the topic to appear.

Customize your topic content URLs to make them more search engine friendly.

Create moderation rules to monitor the content on your site to whatever degree you require. Users can also report potentially problematic content to you.

Feature your forum content throughout your site using the built-in widgets.

Embed polls inside your topics to allow your community members to vote on questions.

Users can subscribe to an RSS feed or get email notifications about new forum topics or replies to specific topics.

Use the archive widget to allow visitors to go back in time to older forum content.

Your members can "like" content, indicating overall interest in the content.

If you enable premium memberships for your Hoop.la site, you can designate any topic as "premium", reserving it for paying members only. We tease the content by displaying an extract. :)