With the low Steem prices and high expenses, Steemit Inc. is almost broke and they are cutting costs wherever possible. Steemitimages is a centralised image uploading service provided by Steemit Inc. When you upload images on steemit.com or for example through the beem.imageuploader in the beem Python library by 
I used to love steemitimages: I always export my photos from Lightroom with a width of 1920px and JPEG compression level of 70, this guarantees that my photographs can be viewed at full HD resolution without compromising on quality. Steemitimages did not mess much with my photos and only compressed them a little more to save a few KB which was not visible. I will turn my website (https://julianpetersphotography.de/) that is currently powered by Wordpress into a Steem dApp soon where my photos will be displayed at 1920px as well, so having high-resolution photos in my Steem posts is important to me.
After 
Even when not viewed full-screen but in a post, the photo looks clearly blurry with heavy compression artefacts. I understand that Steemit Inc. is trying to save money and obviously 83 KB are a lot cheaper to host than 581 KB - but they can't be serious about downsizing all our images including pictures uploaded in the past to 640px!
So has Steemitimages destroyed all our images?
Luckily, the answer is no! If you open a picture embedded in a post on steemit.com in a new tab, you will find ?format=match&mode=fit&width=640 at the end of the url. If you change this to ?format=match&mode=fit, you will get a much better resolution and quality. Other frontends such as 
This is just another reason to use alternative frontends instead of Steemit, but since this means that the large version is still hosted by steemitimages, the question remains why steemit.com now shows the downsized version and if Steemit Inc. plans to delete the larger versions eventually. To be on the safe side, I recommend switching from steemit.com to another dApp and upload images using their image uploader such as 
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