• HeyListenWatchOut@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Need to disambiguate between saving locally and saving directly to cloud storage.

    I do agree overall, but it is less so these days as most modern applications where you’re creating something auto-save - either “in the cloud” or in a file recovery area set by the application.

    In a web browser, “saving” an image or video or whatever is the same as “downloading.”

    If you’re working on a document in something like Adobe - since most of their software now auto-saves your documents to their cloud service, “saving” is really just you creating another copy and bringing it to a specific location on you internal storage media… like downloading it.

    I do want to point out that I personally am fine with the disk icon being forever associated with “saving” since it went from being a skeuomorphic symbol for legacy users to an abstract one for newer users, but if you were to twist my arm - that’s my argument as to why the “download arrow w/ an underline” works as well…

    …though Jesus Christ - it seems that comment above where I was attempting to make that point is very contentious.