What's the most you'd pay for a custom theme on your forum?
Thousands, but it would have to be a commercial brand-free supported license by a trusted developer and be jam packed with options to essentially make 1 forum appear way different than another (sidebar settings, widget settings, header settings, etc.).
What's the most you'd pay for custom plugin work on your forum?
Again, thousands. The extensions done for chanForo alone to take image boards into the new era ran me about $1000. It's essentially a dormant demo of what it can do (disabled). I plan on launching the first real image board based on the chanForo work done, but I am trying to get over the CSAM hurdle. I don't want to risk my AI accounts getting closed, so I need to look into that more if CSAM is pushed through my API for verification. I've also heard that Cloudflare blocks CSAM.
I'd also like to know that it works, so for whatever solution I go with, have like a 500x500 pixel "known" CSAM file (like randomly generated pixels that's on the CSAM hash list) to pass through to test whether it detects it or not, and the response I get back from the server to know how to deal with it on my end (log IP, log everything, automate email to FBI, etc.).
I've also been a part of a big board and had custom work done in the $500-750 range for each big project we needed.
Prior to that big board, I was on one that had a full-time dev, and I was just the beta tester to break things.
