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I'd still like the full-resolution photos available, but scaling down the image included in the post seems like a really good idea.

In fact, Imgur already automatically produces scaled-down versions of uploaded images. For your example image, I just need to add an l before the .jpg extension to get an image that's scaled to fit in 640x640: https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6l.jpg

The image upload control should insert these instead of the full-sized images. It would be nice if they could be links to the full-sized images too.

Stack Exchange has started using some custom resizing behaviour for uploaded user avatars. This is currently applied when ?s=128 is appended to an image URL: https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6.jpg?s=128. They could use similar custom behaviour to resize images to the max-width allowed on the current site instead of just using one of Imgur's built-in sizes.

I'd still like the full-resolution photos available, but scaling down the image included in the post is good idea.

In fact, Imgur already automatically produces scaled-down versions of uploaded images. For your example image, I just need to add an l before the .jpg extension to get an image that's scaled to fit in 640x640: https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6l.jpg. Stack Exchange could also extend the custom image sizing behaviour they added for profile pictures (?s=128) to allow resizing to the actual max-length on each site (630 here on beta).

The image upload control has been updated to insert images as links pointing to the image URL. This helpfully ensures that the full-sized images will always be available, even if they're not embedded in the post.

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[![bike locked to railing](https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6l.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6.jpg)]

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I'd still like the full-resolution photos available, but scaling down the image included in the post seems like a really good idea.

In fact, imgur already automatically produces scaled-down versions of uploaded images. For your example image, I just need to add an l before the .jpg extension to get an image that's scaled to fit in 640x640: https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6l.jpg

The image upload control should insert these instead of the full-sized images. It would be nice if they could be links to the full-sized images too.

I'd still like the full-resolution photos available, but scaling down the image included in the post seems like a really good idea.

In fact, Imgur already automatically produces scaled-down versions of uploaded images. For your example image, I just need to add an l before the .jpg extension to get an image that's scaled to fit in 640x640: https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6l.jpg

The image upload control should insert these instead of the full-sized images. It would be nice if they could be links to the full-sized images too.

Stack Exchange has started using some custom resizing behaviour for uploaded user avatars. This is currently applied when ?s=128 is appended to an image URL: https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6.jpg?s=128. They could use similar custom behaviour to resize images to the max-width allowed on the current site instead of just using one of Imgur's built-in sizes.

I'd still like the full-resolution photos available, but scaling down the image included in the post seems like a really good idea.

In fact, imgur already automatically produces scaled-down versions of uploaded images. For your example image, I just need to add an l before the .jpg extension to get an image that's scaled to fit in 640x640: https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6l.jpg

The image upload control should insert these instead of the full-sized images. It would be nice if they could be links to the full-sized images too.

I'd still like the full-resolution photos available, but scaling down the image included in the post seems like a really good idea.

In fact, imgur already automatically produces scaled-down versions of uploaded images. For your example image, I just need to add an l before the .jpg extension to get an image that's scaled to fit in 640x640: https://i.sstatic.net/8IlR6l.jpg

The image upload control should insert these instead of the full-sized images. It would be nice if they could be links to the full-sized images too.