Photography, gear and... ill-treated images

You would think that on a photography oriented site, they'd be sensitive to photographic detail. But since the new system took effect... I agree, there is definitely a degradation of image quality.

I can see that if you're using dpr storage, they'd do this to keep bandwidth down. But if you're using your own storage, the link doesn't flow through their server, so no additional load.

In this case, convenience does not trump quality.