For integration with third-party, we allow integration with Trophies & Medals using REST API. We welcome integration with other apps, but you will need to contact the app author to develop the criteria - we would be happy to provide a courtesy copy of Trophies & Medals to them for development purposes.
Yes, replies = posts. You are welcome to change the langstring to make it better fit with your community.
I like the idea of total number of awards and and showcase option. Will bookmark idea for future consideration.
We should be able to allow basic editing to Font Awesome icons like coloring. As others have pointed out previously, this isn't mean to be a design engine -- this is meant to be the awards engine. We encourage users to create their own custom, unique awards to use in the app.