Hoop.la - 100% Organic Online Community Platform

Make A Hoop.la

The most powerful online community platform is hosted and easy to use.

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Features

Blog

The blog supports drafts, future publication dates, tagging, and organizing into collections.

Clips

Upload and share photos, videos, audio filies and documents.

Chat Events

Schedule live chat events that can be moderated and have featured guests.

Dialogs

Dialogs are private messages between two or more community members.

Activity Streams

Site-wide and profile activity streams chronicle new content, replies, likes, and more.

Widgets

Easily focus on specific community content with widgets. Add other content to pages with custom widgets.

Forums

Clean, beautiful discussion forums, with support for rich HTML content, as well as photo, video, audio, and document uploads.

Calendar

List events of interest for your community. Members can indicate whether they plan to attend or not.

Mobile-Ready

UBB sites are optimized for all smartphone browsers. No app required. Works well on iPhone, Android, and other leading platforms.

Social Hooks

Integrate with Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Google, Yahoo, and more. Can be used for member sign-in or for integration of content on member profile pages.

Premium Memberships

Charge for usage of certain features or access to premium content.

Custom Pages

Add your own static web pages to your UBB site.

Management

Content Management

Move topics from one forum to another. Set detailed content moderation rules.

Member Management

Optionally moderate new registrations. Ban members. Record admin-only notes about community members.

Permissions

Grant specific admin or user permissions to permission groups.

Themes

Choose one of our many stock themes or create your own custom theme to change the look and feel of your site.

Just Want Forums? Consider A UBB Forum Plan

If you love Hoop.la but only have a need for forums, consider our UBB Forum plans.

A UBB Forum plan is Hoop.la without support for: calendar, blog, clips (photo/video/audio/document sharing), and chat events.

UBB Forum Standard costs $24/month less than Hoop.la Standard. Learn more about UBB Forum.

Easy To Run

Hosted ("SAAS") service.
No software to install or maintain.
Unlimited bandwidth, disk space, posts.
Automatic, free updates.
No equipment to maintain.
Scale to any size.

Feature-Rich

Blog.
Forums.
Clips: photo, video, audio, and document sharing.
Chat Events.
Calendar Events.
Dialogs: private messages.

You Control

Your Members.
Your Content.
Your look and feel.
Your policies.
Your permissions.
Your home base.

Modern

Clean interface.
Easily themed.
Mobile-ready.
Social: connect with Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Widgets: highlight content the way your want.
ROI-enabled: ad slots and premium memberships.

Awesome Support

All of our employees participate in supporting our customers.
Your questions are answered quickly.
Post your suggestions and feedback anytime.

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