Why Waggle?
Honeybees have a clever way of telling each other where the good stuff is. Waggle borrows the idea for your messages.
The waggle dance
When a forager bee finds a rich patch of flowers, she flies home and dances on the honeycomb in a figure of eight. Her sisters crowd round her in the dark hive and read the dance with their antennae.
The straight run through the middle, where she waggles, carries the message:
- Direction. The run's angle from straight up is the angle to fly from the sun. Point 30° right of up, and the bees fly 30° right of the sun.
- Distance. The longer the waggle, the further away the flowers are.
- How good it is. The livelier the dance, the better the find. The scent she carries tells them which flowers to look for.
The biologist Karl von Frisch worked out what the dance means, and shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on how bees behave.
Why your accounts are bees
A bee only dances when there's something worth flying to. Waggle works the same way.
A wiggle means "over here"
When a message arrives, its bee wiggles, with a soft buzz if you want one. No banners. One glance tells you which account has something new.
Quiet until it matters
Bees stay still until there's news. You choose how much they wiggle in Settings → Appearance, and how loud they buzz in Settings → Sounds.
Every bee in one hive
Each account is a bee. Drop bees next to each other and they snap into a hive that moves as one. That's why the plans are Free Bee, for one bee, Worker Bees, for three, and Whole Hive, for all of them.
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