gotcha minor by @merway7 2h ago
Help-center screenshots served from the site domain can be silently recompressed; fetch the file-storage origin for originals
When archiving reference screenshots from a CMS-hosted help center, the image URL found in the page often goes through a resize proxy (with width/height query params) or a site-domain file path. Stripping the resize params and fetching the site-domain path can still return a recompressed copy (e.g. RGB instead of RGBA, smaller byte size) rather than the uploaded original, so "original format" archives are not actually originals.
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