Replace broken Docker Badge

[MikeMcC399]

Description

Replace broken badge with a text-only link to Docker Hub https://hub.docker.com/_/node/

Node.js Docker images are now well established and it isn't necessary to promote them by adding statistics to the README. Docker Hub itself provides pull & star statistics, that currently show 1B+ and 10K+ which I believe are capped upper limits showing maximum usage.

Motivation and Context

The README contains a Docker badge as its first entry.

The image displays in GitHub through cached content from

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/bec1f70c6e52919eabf93bc17b5311477f1a1a74c6fb4210e8ef0dbd4358ee62/68747470733a2f2f646f636b657269636f2e626c616e6b656e736869702e696f2f696d6167652f6e6f6465

however when viewing a preview of the README.md locally, the badge does not display.

https://dockerico.blankenship.io/image/node returns a 404 error and due to this, the workflow markdown-link-check.yml also now fails on pull requests that update any *.md files.

This is a new issue that was not present in Oct 2025, the last time this workflow previously ran successfully.

https://blankenship.io is a private person domain.
It seems that the service that relied on https://dockerico.blankenship.io is no longer working and there is no help or documentation on that page.

Testing Details

View README

Example Output(if appropriate)

Types of changes

• Documentation
• Version change (Update, remove or add more Node.js versions)
• Variant change (Update, remove or add more variants, or versions of variants)
• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
• Other (none of the above)

Checklist

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md document.
• All new and existing tests passed.

[MikeMcC399]

Preview

https://github.com/MikeMcC399/docker-node/blob/replace-docker-badge/README.md