Online forums foster a sense of community amongst site users. They can also help increase viewer awareness, giving those who access the site and the website owner a source of feedback not available elsewhere.

MyCyberGuru Threads 2.1 software creates forums with entry points for multiple users, image uploads, contact fields and many other user features. Administrative features include comment management, editing, and threading functionality. A version of MCG MyThreads 1.6 is implemented on the Asian Pacific Post newspaper site .