Chat silence
The longest run of days with nothing from either side, and who broke it — the mirror image of a streak.
Every long-running chat has gaps — a trip with no signal, a busy exam period, a falling-out that quietly resolved without either person naming it. The longest of those gaps, and specifically who sent the message that ended it, is a small but genuinely revealing data point: consistently being the one to break a silence is a different pattern of investment than consistently waiting to be texted first, even in an otherwise perfectly balanced friendship.
Example
A 55-day silence broken by the same person who also tends to start most conversations is one thread in a broader pattern, not a coincidence worth reading alone.
Frequently asked questions
Does a long silence mean the relationship was struggling?+
Sometimes, but just as often it means one or both people were somewhere without reliable signal, or simply together in person and not texting because there was no need to.
How is this different from a broken streak?+
A streak breaking is any gap of a full day or more; chat silence specifically tracks the single longest such gap in the whole window, plus who ended it.