This always irked me as I can't read the image when trying to look at raw text and the, say build status, isn't actually relevant to understanding the project. Sourcehut has an interesting approach where you can POST any HTML to an endpoint at it becomes the homepage. You can tag on extra markup if you want in the build step and that markup doesn't have to live in the README (say badges, other images, abbreviation tags, summary/details, etc.)
This always irked me as I can't read the image when trying to look at raw text and the, say build status, isn't actually relevant to understanding the project. Sourcehut has an interesting approach where you can POST any HTML to an endpoint at it becomes the homepage. You can tag on extra markup if you want in the build step and that markup doesn't have to live in the README (say badges, other images, abbreviation tags, summary/details, etc.)