Imgur doesn't seem to give out the original image for some images, for example, https://i.sstatic.net/P4cLI.jpg?maxwidth=123456789&shape=thumb&fidelity=high
The problem is that I bet "shape=thumb" and "fidelity=high" are downgrading the original image.
Does not give me the original:
https://i.sstatic.net/P4cLI.jpg
Does not exist:
https://imgur.com/hJCEq8P_d
https://imgur.com/a/hJCEq8P_d
https://i.sstatic.net/P4cLI.jpg
would be it in an ideal world, but it is not.
Is there a fidelity higher than "high"? Is there a shape better than "thumb"? I just want the original image or the best possible version of it, and Imgur is jerking me around and stupidly wasting my time by not giving me that.
Remove the "_d":
https://i.sstatic.net/VmSWP.jpg
has a better quality than
https://i.imgur.com/hJCEq8P_d.jpg?maxwidth=123456789&shape=thumb&fidelity=high
I think that Imgur idioticly compresses all JPEGs uploaded there, so the JPEG file on a user's hard drive and the Imgur-uploaded version of that file are not bit-identical and the online version is lower quality. My point is that I guess the actual original image is unreachable unless it is linked in the image's description on the Imgur page.