# Plex as a flickr alternative?
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526
**Category:** General Discussions
**Tags:** photos-library
**Created:** [November 2, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526 "2018-11-02T09:54:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Frostelikus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Frostelikus)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2018, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526/1 "2018-11-02T09:54:51Z")
flickr is about to limit its free tier to 1000 photos and I am currently thinking about alternatives. Can I use plex to host photos and share them with people not using plex? Has anyone an opinion on the automatic tagging feature? The last time I tried it, I wasn’t too impressed with it.
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### Author:  [@melrhombus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/melrhombus)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526/2 "2018-11-02T13:28:14Z")
Self hosted that I’ve tried and are decent
> **[Piwigo - Open source photo management software](https://www.piwigo.org)**
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> Manage your photo library with Piwigo! Free and open source software to organize and share your photos and digital media on the web.
> **[Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right](https://lychee.electerious.com)**
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> Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely.
> **[GitHub - rodber/chevereto-free: 👉 Go to chevereto/chevereto for newer Chevereto...](https://github.com/rodber/chevereto-free)**
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> 👉 Go to chevereto/chevereto for newer Chevereto releases. Self-hosted image sharing software, your own Flickr/Imgur with your very own rules.
> **[ZenphotoCMS - The simpler media website CMS](https://www.zenphoto.org/)**
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> ZenphotoCMS is a CMS for selfhosted, gallery focused websites. Our focus lies on being easy to use and having all the features there when you need them (but out
Many cloud storage options like NextCloud/Seafile do gallery views for images and you can create shareable links
More here [GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers](https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#photo-and-video-galleries)
For Plex they need to sign up for an account to access anything you share
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### Author:  [@Frostelikus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Frostelikus)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2018, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526/3 "2018-11-03T10:21:36Z")
Thanks a lot for the links. I am not sure if I really want to host another service in addition to plex, but I’ll give it a look. The Lychee link is outdated, this is the correct one:
> **[Lychee — Self-hosted photo-management done right](https://lycheeorg.github.io/)**
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> Lychee is a free photo-management tool, which runs on your server or web-space. Upload, manage and share photos like from a native application. Lychee comes with everything you need and all your photos are stored securely.
Just in case anyone else looking at the software.
Here is a feature request to add the share photo feature to plex:
> [@Photo Sharing To Users Without Plex Account](https://forums.plex.tv/t/photo-sharing-to-users-without-plex-account/204658):
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> Share Link by Url I would like to have the ability to share photos/photo albums by a generated public url. Meaning that anyone accessing the url would not have to have a plex account. Similar to how dropbox works where you can generate a url and can be accessed by anyone who visits the url. [image] [image] Use Case If I want to share a bunch of photos from a group event I would make an album and then generate a link I can email out to the group or post on facebook. Anyone with the link woul…
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### Author:  [@DustSt0rm](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DustSt0rm)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2018, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526/4 "2018-11-03T11:37:33Z")
I used to dabble with photo hosting but on a shared hosting service. I still have it up but never use it anymore… Zen Photo is really good, but if I have there horsepower Gallery2 (maybe it has a different name now) used to be king. But it really needs more CPU than what dreamhost gave me.
Ps, dreamhost gives unlimited storage and bandwidth. I have thought about trying to use them as a reverse proxy for my Plex traffic… Just never dug in far enough.
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### Author:  [@melrhombus](https://forums.plex.tv/u/melrhombus)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526/5 "2018-11-05T14:28:46Z")
Yeah, I had a feeling you were looking for alternatives that are free hosts but that’s getting locked down more and more these days. You’re only big name options are DeviantArt and instagram… unless you’re fine with imgur/photobucket style sites then those too.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526/6 "2019-02-03T14:38:49Z")
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