CHROME ON MAC USERS: Use the imgur links instead of the 0x0 links, some users seem to be reporting crashes related to TLS.

The downsampling also isn't that great.

Original image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haasn/cms/master/rings_lg_...

Downsampled with imgix: http://chen.imgix.net/rings_lg_orig.png?w=400

Downsampled with imagemagick: https://0x0.st/1-.png http://i.imgur.com/Nvl7tAm.png

Downsampled with imagemagick, gamma correct: https://0x0.st/1i.png http://i.imgur.com/Hrm4COb.png

Note how the luminance becomes square in the center (step back a bit if you can't see it), and also the edge pixels on the imgix version.

Just FYI both of those 0x0.st images crash Chrome (Version 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit)) for me and several colleagues...

You don't even have to click the link, just simply get Chrome to load it into memory

edit: looks like something to do with Chrome's pre-fetching and https cert parsing, I think they're literally parsing the "0x0" string within the cert as a memory location

Ironically enough, it looks like the crash only happens on OS X.

Opening the 0x0.st image crashes Chrome on Mac. Just Googling 0x0.st causes whole browser to crash!

What about this downsampler? I think it's a bit better http://res.cloudinary.com/rancloud2/image/fetch/w_400/https:...

That one looks extremely close to the imagemagick one, slightly less aliasing and slighly more blur - it's down to a matter of preference.

Most importantly, it doesn't have the horrible box window that the imgix resampler has.

Warning: clicking on the 3rd link in your comment repeatably crashes Chrome (the entire browser, not just the tab) for me.