No replies for a week. Every story watched, inside the hour.
It feels like a message. It is barely one.
Free to try. We never store your chats.
A story view takes no decision and no words. A reply takes both.
That gap is the entire reason the 2 do not line up, and why reading one as the other goes wrong.
You are not blocked and you are not forgotten. That is the full contents of the signal.
It does not tell you they are about to reach out, and it does not tell you they want you to.
Posting for an audience of 1. You will know if you are doing it, because you will check the viewer list before the view count.
That is the point at which the app is running your evening.
If you want contact, ask for it in words.
Watching each other is not a conversation, and 3 more weeks of it will read exactly like the first.
It works on the thread, not the viewer list — what was last actually said between you, and what is still open in it.
If the answer is that there is nothing to send yet, it says that.
Try it on your conversation