An arrow pointing into a folder, similar to this. Sidesteps the tech issue altogether.
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I mean, you're just replacing one archaic symbol with another.
I still use folders to organize paper documents. Taxes and medical stuff mostly.
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You can't just jump to the future, so use this one for the next decade:
... but platter drives are old hat, SSDs are the new hotness?
Can't skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.
Hard drives pre-dated floppy discs by 15 years.
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every letter in the alphabet started as a symbol of something 2500-6000 years ago, "A" for instance is an upside-down Ox face. people in future generations will continue using the floppy symbol, cuz they learned that means saving, despite floppies not being relevant to their lives
A squirrel, as in to squirrel it away
Best answer, but the save button should save the file somewhere random each time on the storage if the icon is a squirrel.
So, like my work computer then
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Sorry for not submitting my homework on time. The squirrel took it away, never to be seen again.
This makes me think "new file"
Timeless. Ubiquitous. Mandatory for all of K-12 and often beyond. Perfect.
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A safe or vault symbol as an indicator for safe keeping
A CD image. Got to move with the times.
Han solo frozen in carbonite
I've already seen it replaced in some applications. Don't like that.
I know it's "if you have to", but if I have any choice at all, the floppy icon stays.
What even is the point in changing it? Like sure we don't use floppies anymore, but it's a well established symbol for saving.
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Ouuh this is a fun one. I find that floppy disks look somewhat similar to SD-cards. Do you think the majority of kids (18 and younger) would recognize SD cards?
I do not!
Let's be real, when some shitty company (MS) gets around to it, it will be: ☁️⬆️
Down arrow pointing to a line, box, folder, or similar. Icons like that are what I've seen most commonly in software that has an icon for saving over the last few years.
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Given the impermanence of any storage medium today, I'm thinking a puff of smoke would convey the sentiment with the right level of user expectation.
💨
A dark souls campfire/site of grace
A rotary pay phone powered by a steam engine.
Probably an arrow pointing to a hard drive.
A quill
Gotta go with an even older symbol, the ring buoy.
I choose a labeled, icon-free button that says save
probably a safe.
A circle with a check/tick in it
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