She knows.

@PUBLIQclopAccountant  
Loads of puns!

AJ successfully learned Python as her new year’s resolution.

@Yoshimon1  
Actually I think I’ve just figured it out
 
The side panel to the login screen, where the picture you came from is displayed, measures 416x690. If the budget res they’re displaying, and therefore the res uploaded here, is lower than either of those two dimensions, DA fetches the full resolution to display instead (if it exists), since otherwise they’d have to stretch their thumbnail.
 
I just confirmed that all of the pics I’ve found so far were less than 690px tall, and I assume that if I was able to find any less than 416 wide, the same trick would apply.
 
This now raises the question: is there anything we can do clientside to make that login screen side panel larger, therefore increasing the likelihood we get served the full resolution?

@Litrojia  
A win for some artists if this means they don’t need to disable it every time.

@Phoenixflambe  
The download button is opt-in, or at least it is now.

@Litrojia  
I thought artists just disabled download?

nice one lmao

@Kanzuke  
They hid the option in the image upload UI to enable the download button, discouraging artists from showing full res. I have to imagine it’s DA trying to save costs by denying full images, but it’s costing them their reputation instead.

@Yoshimon1  
I just tried a bunch from source_url:**deviantart.com**, height.lte:1000 and of the six where there was a higher res available, only two actually served it on the login screen. Still a really weird glitch.
 
What’s the deal with DA serving such crap res anyway? What happened to the download button?

@Yoshimon1  
That sucks. I only tried it with this image. And leave it to DA to butcher paywalled downloads like that.

@Litrojia  
Sadly it does only seem to work on a few images, though. I tried it on around 10 and only found one other where it worked, the others only showed resized jpgs on the login screen. (Funnily enough, the one that did work actually sells the full size download for $25.)

@Phoenixflambe  

@Litrojia  
I kinda figured the fetch system doesn’t quite work and will never work even as I stated the problems with it. So how do I use this new method?

 
Huzzah, a new exploit (or at least new to me) to get full res pictures from DA! Thanks for mentioning.

Well it sure is a nice statue

Fluttershy knew what she was doing.

“It doubles as a personal health toy!”

…We know AJ’s not going to use it for an ornament…

Snake statue yay