The Community Home

A community on Karmyq is a place you belong to, not a dashboard you administer. When you open one, it opens as a neighbourhood — who's here, what's happened this week, and who could use a hand — for members and stewards alike.

What you land on

Everyone — members and admins — lands on the warm Home tab:

• A warm hero with the community's name, its mission, a few of your neighbours' faces, and a visible cap bar. Communities are capped (150 by default, "on purpose — small enough that people still know each other"), and the bar shows how full this one is and how much room remains.
• "This week in the neighbourhood" — a small, honest pulse of real activity: distinct neighbours who helped each other (one neighbour who helped three times is one helper, not three, so the headline never outruns the named helpers), open asks across the community (and how many are time-sensitive), and who recently joined. The open-asks row is a link: it opens a reachable, read-only list of exactly those asks — including your own and ones already offered on — so every number the pulse names can be seen. And because the pulse counts an exchange, that exchange also shows up as a connection in "How we're connected" (the two are reconciled from the same source — see ADR-078). Rows with nothing to say are simply hidden — no empty "0" tiles.
• The open asks themselves, led by the relationships that make them feel close (your trust path to the person, not a bare score).

The four tabs

Tab	What's there
Home	The hero, the weekly pulse, and the open asks you can help with.
People	Everyone in the community, the trust between you, and the community's norms.
How we're connected	The community's trust graph — how help has actually flowed.
Stewardship	Where the community is tended: shared decisions, splitting and merging, and (for admins) the steward-request tools, settings, and providers.

Group communities also get an Activities tab for event coordination.

Stewardship lives one altitude down

Management still exists — it just isn't the first thing you see. Decisions, community splits, and merges are open to every member; the heavier admin tools (triaging requests, insights, exports, settings) live inside Stewardship, gated to stewards. The point is that running a community and belonging to one are different altitudes, and belonging comes first.

The weekly pulse reads as care, not accounting

The pulse says how many neighbours showed up for one another. The count is still real and distinct; the language is softer because it is evidence of community life, not a scoreboard. Rows with no activity stay hidden — you'll never see "0 neighbours" — and open asks still link straight to the community's open-asks view.

Old links still work

Every older link into a community page (an overview, requests, trust, or governance link you may have bookmarked) resolves into the new four-tab model — nothing dead-ends.