The only writing icon that matters is the drumming gif. It doesn’t even make sense anymore but it was so unbelievably perfect for the time.
Fuck Excel and Microsoft for tying auto save to OneDrive.
I once had what I thought was a friend, but who was definitely a teacher. He joked that he brought a floppy disk to his school and his students asked who had 3d printed a save icon.
What even is a good alternative save icon these days?! This is the only save icon I know.
Set it in stone.
…maybe something more basic like this:
Back then the version control really was v2 Final Final. The good ol days.
We still do that level of version control. But we used to, too
A floppy disk is fine, just like Photoshop uses terms like dodge and burn, references to obsolete dark room methods, like cutting and “pasting” were literally how some layout projects worked.
Referencing the last physical incarnation of saving a file seems fitting!
Pretty harsh to the compact disc don’t you think?
CD wasn’t even the last physical media that was adopted widely. Technically I think that may be thumbdrives for now, but there were some tape and disc shaped, but high density for the time (like 20MB to 100MB for the disk shaped one, and 1GB to 2GB tapes.) and named something I don’t remember, media options that were created in the late '90s early '00s before thumbdrives became a thing.
You don’t save to a CD, you burn it
It’s just the download button, truly. They already associate that icon with saving files from the web. The down arrow pointing to a rectangle or laptop icon in word or similar app wouldn’t be too ambiguous…
Or, truly, the floppy will just become a nebulous, originless heiroglyph meaning “keep this information for later and let me put it somewhere to find it again,” and some Gen. Beta child will get curious and learn about ye olde days of magnetic media from Wikipedia.
Realistically the icon could br anything, even the green check emoji: ✅
But if we want to retain the thematic reference to a disk- icon-ify an m.2 2230 or similar and literally just swap em. lol
Image for reference:
Up arrow to a cloud, or down arrow to a platter (which, ironically, is also out-of-date)
You just described upload and download, not save.
Up arrow to a cloud
nice try Microsoft
Up arrow to a cloud
Vomits
Hard to disk drives are still around but you might want to make it look generically like a generic that could also be an SSD just as easy
The difficult part would be depicting a SSD. It’s just a rectangle.
Maybe put a folder inside the rectangle?
The chip icon, you know the one next to the other chip icon.
Congratulations on the drugs, I guess
That or posting on mobile while sleep deprived as fuck. Rereading a post made in bed the night prior is always a humbling experience.
Hey they tried! 😂
This:
Or a Christian cross (“Jesus saves”)
A frog from Mother 3
Yeah it’s old and loses relevance, but we can go older and it circles back to recognizable again
✍️
Or just say the vending machine is because it’s a store and you are storing the data when you save
It’s time we upgrade the icon to Zip drives, or maybe Sony memory sticks.
I once saw a usb thumb drive as an icon. Guess it didn’t take off.
It might be the best actually since they’re still around and, never say never, may not go anywhere. Though a USBA icon will confuse the USBC crowd soon enough.
☁️ is a (rather terrible) way to indicate cloud saving.
Maybe a life preserver ring won’t become out of date? 🛟
That’s ‘Help’, not ‘Save’
This is Help
cool, now we got a reference older than the 3.5 inch floppy
Well ackshually this picture spells “NUJV”
Maybe their spelling is what they need help with 🤔
Yeah but that’s awfully anglo-centric. Saving life has nothing to do with saving a file in other languages.
I’ve seen an SD card used before.
SD card?
A princess in a tower guarded by a dragon, with a knight holding a sword getting ready to swing at the dragon.
A disc is also been used for some.
parchment & quill 📜🪶
Man, if only it dispensed actual drinks. But yeah, it used to dispense your whole digital life on 1.44MB. Good times.
An SSD. But not an M.2 because that might be confused for RAM.
A blank rectangle wouldn’t be confusing at all though.
My ssd is literally a 1tb small keychain… There’s too much variation.
Would need to have some sort of drive icon - maybe? - that is unlikely to ever be forgotten… with a down arrow embedded inside.
Hmmm.
That’s a download button, an up arrow on the disk is an upload
The save icon is too established to be changed. It can be simplified and become a glyph no one understands the meaning of, but it’s cemented
Loading circle then checkmark next to filename
What in the flying fuck is wrong with Jerboa for Lemmy? I can’t scroll up past this image now…
You running latest version? It’s working good for me on this image.
Running version 0.0.84, so pretty recent if not the latest.
I went back to check again after more comments accumulated, and now that image isn’t causing the glitch, but another image is.
I dunno what’s up, but I messaged the Jerboa community with my findings. 🤷
Scroll through all the comments, then try scrolling back up to the top, see what if anything happens. It’s buggy here…
Yeah, I’ve been having trouble with my feeds not refreshing once I’ve scrolled down to the “bottom” of what has initially loaded. Been driving me bonkers. Shame, because I rather like Jerboa, but I’m probably going to start scouting for alternatives or sacrifice convenience and stick to a desktop browser.
I find myself happy enough with Jerboa. I don’t often experience bugs, but when I do, I make a point to report it to their dev team. They do listen and make a point to iron out the bugs, eventually…
That looks like a download button :0
Throw in drawer and forget about forever
No thank you
Why not this?
I dunno man. A brick falling on some guy’s head and making his eyes pop out seems like an excessively violent symbol.
There was an 8" one before that too.
I’ve seen that on some vintage software.
Get with the 3.5" floppy times man!
Hang on didn’t the Japanese government only like last year decide to stop using floppies?
Yeah but kids don’t have to file with the gov, their parents do.
Yeah, it seems like Japan of all places should be where people should still have the most familiarity with them
If you want to make a greybeard feel old, grab one of the old floppies that they still have in a filing cabinet, hold it up and say, “Hey look, someone 3D printed a save icon!”
I’m 20 btw.
Lol
These are just what I had handy LMAO I’m also 30+ and still remember dialup so maybe it’s not that impactful either way 😂
Why do individually-sealed diskettes like Kraft Singles feel so wrong?
Because you weren’t alive when they were in use?
Dust kills them. They’d typically be packaged in individual paper envelopes or plastic bags.
I remember when floppies were floppy, kid.
They’re still floppy on the inside.
Sorry to hear about the dementia, old timer.
Oh come on, this is funny. Don’t downvote humor you old farts. I’m old enough to remember when we got internet. I was 14 and had to beg mom to let us use the free AOL trial.
Once that month was up, we were hooked faster than if we had visited a Chinese opium den in the 1800s.
Edit: wow I sure fucked up that first draft. I was 14, not 24.
skshhhhhhhSKHHHHHHHH gnah gnah eeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEE
They are fun to use, they sound neat, and they dont give me data overload of a 1 tb hard drive filling up and wondering where all the space went. Sure, all you can use it for is a few text docs or 10 low res pictures, but its at least physical and a lot harder to wreck than a cd.
Come back when you have some punch cards. ;)
If young people anywhere would see floppies, I’m guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They’re notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.
I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.
Two that come to mind: Deutsche Bahn still transfers the seat reservation database to the trains using diskettes. And San Francisco Muni uses 5.25 Floppies for their light rail trains.
I live in Japan and haven’t heard of this, but I’m generally allergic to most social media. I’ll have to ask my wife when I get home if she’s seen it.
Not a vending machine. It’s clearly the third member of Daft Punk with a snaggletooth.
When skeuomorphic isn’t anymore.
TIL about skeuomorphisms
