# 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:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Frostelikus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cdc98d/32.png) [@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 The Lychee link is outdated, this is the correct one: 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/)** > > 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): > > 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… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-as-a-flickr-alternative/326526)._