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Creating a mobile app?

Traffic to my forum has dropped considerably over the last 4 years. When I started my forum several years ago, the majority of traffic coming to my forum was desktop users. Now, more than half are mobile. My site does have a mobile theme, but I don't think that is enough anymore. Could offering an app experience (eg. push notifications) help improve member retention? I know of tapatalk, but I am actually a member of another forum that uses tapatalk and it has hurt the functionality of their desktop forum (eg. it creates its own urls - someone will link to a thread and if it is a tapatalk url, it won't work for desktop users, and the bbcode for images uploaded by members who use the tapatalk version of the forum does not work on desktop - I have to copy and paste the url for the image into a browser to see the image). So is there a better way to create an app from my forum without hurting the desktop site/users? Suggestions?

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