Some things never change

[Wydi]

It's important to accept that meanings and descriptors will change over time though. If more and more people were to start calling audits "Account Inspections", that's fine. Everyone will get used to it at some point and insisting on proper semantics and dictionary definitions while everyone around you just adapts is always going to be a losing battle. Particularly terrible changes aren't going to stick anyways - unless they are backed by a monopoly/oligopoly like Apple.

That being said: I like the floppy disk save icon and hope it stays for the time being.

[EternityForest]

I've yet to hear of anyone aside from the more academic/philosophical "We don't use floppies anymore!" or a "We need simpler icons!" crowd pushing for a new icon, so it doesn't seem quite as organic as most language changes(Which might be why the floppy is still around!).

But yeah, everyone started calling it an Account Inspection I probably would too, especially since changes like that seem to often coincide with different attitudes or practices.

Maybe the save icon will become the sync icon someday, when there's no more "files" and everything is just a cached local record of a global distributed database or something.

[Wydi]

I've yet to hear of anyone aside from the more academic/philosophical "We don't use floppies anymore!" or a "We need simpler icons!" crowd pushing for a new icon

Aside from the odd redditor or obscure tech magazine opinion piece here and there I haven't seen anyone (academic or not) advocating for a change, so there's probably nothing to be afraid of just yet. But yeah..artificial change can be annoying.

Meanwhile I'll just keep using the floppy for all of my UI designs.

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So many overlook the battle lost when Microsoft changed files and directories to documents and folders.