I used Flickr years back - 2008 until, apparently, 2013 - but it kept changing and becoming harder to use. First they made it difficult to find the direct image link, then they changed it again to plaster the place with warnings that using Flickr to link pictures elsewhere was against the ToS, then they changed it so the previous workarounds no longer worked and that's about when I gave up trying to learn new ways to do what they obviously didn't want you to do with it. I salute your prowess and your ability to hotlink pics to your journal without getting banz0red for it!