This is a comparison of how TOPS IWSS and Drupal are able to support our website feature proposals.

Email Notification of Discussion on Website

We'll use the term subscribe here as the ability to be notified by email of discussion taking place on the website.

TOPS IWSS

Users may subscribe to an entire (single by default) message board only. A message board contains "topics" that contain "messages".

Drupal

Users may subscribe to any number of individual discussions, as well as groups of related discussions by subscribing to any number of categories. This functionality is provided by the Subscriptions Module.