Our campus offices and parents were accustomed to using photo archives as a way to access and download hi-resolution images for use in campus publications and for making prints, photo books, etc. Now that the "download original" option is gone, we have lost an important tool for archiving and sharing our best photos. Please consider returning that feature.
Us too! Been meaning to follow up about this for a long time. The album link for private categories shows the old podium view, and I wish the archived content showed this. Also, it used to actually download the hi-res photo when choosing the original file, and it doesn't anymore. All the constituents in our community were accustomed to this as well. It was wonderful to be able to tell people to go to the archive (formerly media gallery) and that it would always be there. It cut down on our workload of having to field these requests every week.