[philip1209]

Yeah, that's fair - Discourse is a different forum software that follows this playbook.

The lack of a unified backend makes it much harder to build native mobile apps.

[mdekkers]

> The lack of a unified backend makes it much harder to build native mobile apps.

That response comes across as disingenuous. The lack of a unified backend makes a lot of monetisation models hard, but should pose zero problems for native mobile apps. Point at an API and done.