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[–] bklyn@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

No, that’s not it at all

Downloading data and saving data are two separate and distinct functions that describe a different process. While they may have a similar result, they are not the same thing.

You may not understand that, even after I’ve explained it a second time, but they’re not the same thing. They work differently, occurring different contexts, and a single icon should not be used to communicate two distinct concepts. That’s why there are two separate icons.

Whether the save icon is that of a floppy disk or not, doesn’t change that.

And your argument basically amounts to that people are too stupid to care.

But you raise a good point: why would it need to be changed? It’s everywhere, everyone already knows it, it works. Why change it? After all, you seem to think that people are too stupid to care.

Then why do you care?