First-week silence in a community app

In two campus companion apps we read last year, the event list showed a polite install, a completed welcome, and then a gap until delete. Hosts had spent the week polishing the fourth illustrated card. The hall those cards opened onto still held yesterday’s festival debris.

First-week silence is not mystery. It is the stretch where a newcomer has done what the screens asked and no named person has answered. A line that says who is in the hall now — even three first names — does more than another metaphor about “your journey.”

We ask hosts to log whether a newcomer received a human reply before the third evening. If the log is empty, the audit letter will say so without dressing it as a funnel stage.