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I've been a pro member for many years, with about 35k photos uploaded. I am grateful that they have never chased the engagement bait. Some people like to complain about the Pro features but I found them to be absolutely fair and I wanna do everything I can to support this platform.

All of my photos are automatically synced to Flickr via the Auto uploader, and getting things from my camera to Flickr is as simple as transferring the data from the dslr to my phone, and the auto uploader takes care of the rest.

From there I can go through the photos, decide which ones I wanna make public, and organize them into my albums to share with others.

My single complaint with Flickr is simply that they won't provide a markdown embed code that works exactly like HTML embed, but that's pretty low of a complaint.

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Can you elaborate on the markdown embed request? In which contexts would you want that?

I explained it here back when their forum was still open: https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157714720744427/pa...

They have bbcode and html embed, with dynamic width and automatic linking back to the page with alt text, but nothing for markdown.

I can use HTML for my blog but my blog is written and marked down and I would rather just stick to markdown, plus many forums have switched to markdown and won't accept an HTML embed.

My current solution is to convert the following by hand from something like

   <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/uname/1234/" title="My Title"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1234/abcd.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="My Alt Text" /></a>

To:

    [![My Alt Text!](live.staticflickr.com/1234/abcd.jpg "My Title")](www.flickr.com/photos/uname/1234)

For every photo I like to share which can be a lot when I am blogging...

> My single complaint with Flickr is simply that they won't provide a markdown embed code that works exactly like HTML embed, but that's pretty low of a complaint.

fwiw, a lot of markdown parsers allow some amount of HTML also.

Pasting a html img tag into your markdown documents might work, depending on which parser is used.