Hi, I'm not sure if you saw the current version of the ureka idea that is at ureka.org or if you saw the original version that was built on completely different technology and had very different features.
The current version of ureka is based on the version of the breakaway community code for Hive that is a cut down version of the code that runs ecency.com. That code is open source and you can set up a server that runs it for very litte or potentially for free. The current version is quite basic and not so simple to customise - so you would really end up with a Hive powered website that is oriented around a specific Hive community.
The old version of Ureka had a lot more features because it was based on the open source social networking framework at elgg.org. It had a built in chat system and many other things that Hive generally doesn't have. I am about to publish a blog post that provides a high level design for a future veresion of Hive that bridges some of the gaps involved here.
The cost and affordability is always unique to the project as it depends on what features you want to include and what avenues you have to generate income from the site. The potential spectrum of cost for a year's running is quite large.. It could be anywhere from a few thousand dollars to a few million ;)
thank you so much for answering - sorry I reply so late but the holidays -- a lot of my friends dumped their animals with me during their own celebrations and I did not have one finger or thought to anything else but animals feeding, walking, cleaning, searching ...
I found your little network with 11 members on the net with an ICANN domain so I thought it might be possible to run a network for example with unstoppable domains which cannot be blocked by governments ... not that everyone wants a criminal site who has this intention - you know how it is nowadays most of all here in the German speaking lands ... one German man was torn out of his house at 3 in the morning by riot police because he posted a burning EU-flag on a social network - others are identified and convicted for calling the vice-chancellor an idiot ...
Kim Dotcoms former chief programmer told me after he checked the site that one either needs a lot of popular content or pays a fortune to run the site ... and I thought since you have 11 members and you dont look like a Billioniare there must be a third way, thats why I asked ;-)
Anyway I am not a friend of this kind of blockchain which is dominated by fiatmoney because you can trade cryptos for fiat - like all the other cryptos .. I was one of the first mining Bitcoin - around 2010/2011 - and I remember that we were 5 people meeting in a basement every week to talk it over - what IS it really and what can it become .. unfortunatly most people dont understand the current fiatmoney system and thought when they are trading fiat for cryptos they can replace fiat ...well now cryptos are one more speculation asset of the fiat-system and not a replacement and the money and technology spent in mining is lost ... even there was a basic mistake in thinking that everyone has the same chance to make his own money because of the huge differences in electricity costs everywhere and the hardware that was necessary -- one said its fair that rich lands pay higher costs but Norway is a rich land but their energy costs are the lowest in Europe -- this entire system was doomed from the beginning -- some became rich, the majority lost or cannot even use cryptos for transfers now because one must sign up with passports and fingerprints to exchange some ...
And I am not a fan of the fact that every lol and smile and thumb down remains forever on a blockchain .. thats a waste of energy and maybe someone does not want to keep what he was thinking last year - the right to be forgotten by ones own will does not work here ... its like the tatoos with the name of the first love . whoever replaces this person later always has this name in front of them ...
And most of all its complicated for simple endusers -- all of these keys and "wittnesses" and votes necessary to be allowed to post and so on .. you can be shadowbanned more or less by those with much influence if they dont like your opinion so you have to write content supported by the whales and those behind those whales -- thats not freedom, thats typing to make them rich and at the same time spread their prefered worldview ..
Since Kim Dotcoms Internet Party was crashed twice althoug he donated 4 Millions but only hired tech people and a handful of second hand polititians (they made 499 votes in their second run in New Zealand) a few leftovers and me - I found them around 2018 when it was long over - decided to recreate it but in a more professional way - less national politics but internationally connected and most of all offering safety - own software but also teaching the endusers how to use existing safe software, building safe websites that cannot be blocked so they can learn, communicate and stay informed and so on .. and the national parties then can include their own programs .. for a while server hosting in Iceland was rather safe - now it starts there too with the restrictions .. and servers can be blocked easily ... and of course they are expensive when you run a network offside a static webspace ... we have an idea how it may work if we recreate a very old system once used by the Alien hunters called SETI-at-home if you remember .. with a few changes of course but the basic idea is good -- but thats a lot of work and we need money to feed our programmers and the beginning would be to have a permanent safe web presence -- how should people learn to trust us if we are permanently offline or blocked or they are identified and hunted by their regimes for a comment they made ...
Its a fatal circle - we still have good people, good ideas, we are ready to do something but the technical and juridical possibilities are tighter and tighter each year and the money is gone .. to get some donations - which we surely would - we need bank accounts (the regime can freeze but surely not in the beginning) and market places where people can use platform money to trade and only re-exchange when they leave the platform for example but to develope voucher-like platform money which cannot be prohibited or restricted like cryptos (to buy and sell them) is a lot of work and a programmer must eat and pay rent too ... so you see - I desperatly am looking for a beginning ... and I dont want to use a google- and amazon-powered platform like substack to tell users how to avoid Google amd Amazon ...sometimes I really want to sit in a corner. cry and forget the world outside .. .and so time is running out and we have - nothing ..
Any idea ?
Well thanks anyway for answering and if you are interested - we are on Discord - the last corner to hide where less and less supporters show up now and then .. crowds follow crowds -- in your hard times you know who your few friends are ...
thanks again and greetings !