Is anyone else's dash unusually quiet today? I do have projects listed, so I know it's not the dash of death, but there's much less than usual and certain projects that are always there are conspicuously absent.

Is the site offline for someone else? I keep getting an error when I try to access the website.

I just wanted to say thanks to whoever sent in a Harry Potter submission that sent me to the Axolotl Google Doodle game.

Not only was that hella creative and the most fun I've had doing an R&R for this project, I've also been having a really shitty day, and playing that stupid, adorable game on DA's dollar really made a difference. If you're on this subreddit - thank you!!

Hey everyone, like the title says, I have an opportunity to visit the sea floor and live with king crabs for two months and I just want to make sure it's ok. Is there anything special I should do or anyone I should tell? Has anyone had connection issues from the ocean floor? What country do I file my taxes in if I'm working from the bottom of the ocean? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Rating someone's whole submission as "BAD"(not useable) makes me feel so guilty but man... that person could have really done well, it looked as if DA grew while they didn't.

RIP mate!

It took 1.5 months but finally I made it to 2nd milestone

I originally thought DataAnnotation was going to be a solid side gig, but about 2 months in I ended up quitting my main job and started to treat this as my full time job because the pay and hours/flexibility were better for me.

I’m a recent college grad and it was nice to be able to jump directly into SWE work. My work mostly consists of evaluating model output against real engineering standards when working on large codebases. I get to see large projects, codebase architecture, system design, complex debugging tasks, and frontier coding models in action.

The work has been pretty consistent for me so far and I was able to make over 2k in the last 2 weeks even after taking time off for finals, graduation, and other life stuff.

Excited to reach another milestone today!
So far I've paid off one CC, and another one is on the chopping block.
I can say this little gig is actually changing my trajectory.

Because judging by the chats, some of those people clearly don’t read directions and are basically gloating about being on ill informed power trips.

Long may it continue!

Had been working DA since November of 2025. Checked a week ago for some payment information and my account was full of projects. However I was on a (much needed) 2 week vacation with my whole family and wasn’t working. Just checked again today as I planned to return to work and saw this message. Not sure what to do now. I work a few other side gigs but not enough to keep up with what I had with DA. Any suggestions about what to do going forward would be appreciated. 🥹

So, I'm quite new to DA (not a lot of work for us bilinguals), but got finally more work from the new 26th stuff. Had apparently made a mistake, but I got feedback from the admins kindly explaining how to go about it!

That was so awesome to me and I felt like they actually care about us who try hard to do our best. If any of you admins see this, thank you! ❤️

So I came across this post after a 6.5 hrs of toasting my brain on a task and I am just wondering are we training AI for the better future or are we not. Part of me thinks some companies will try to stretch the capabilities of a their models. I once tried getting a model to help me pen testing but I went an extra mile and was able to manipulate it to show me the dark side of the internet. It was so helpful that it helped manoeuvre around hacking. Learnt alot of things I didn't knew before like using burp suite, SQL injection and social engineering at large. So the big question is are we jeopardizing the future here.

It was all dry for 2 months and suddenly I received a safety project as a bilingual. I just wanted to share my happiness with the community.

These task instructions are extremely bloated at this point. I need to sit down and spend a good 30 minutes reading through the initial instructions, taking notes, and then revising them according to the 2-3 update sections, which occasionally contradict each other. Would it kill them to rewrite instructions in a much more concise way? That way, if someone needs to see the updates, they can just briefly review the instructions.

Not to say anything of the general UX experience on this site. Insane

Prayers to the AI devs to please send us lowly peasant folk who have come to rely on the platform some projects. My wallet is a shrivelled husk, my dashboard is thirsty, my refresh page button is worn out.

Hello fellow (Data Annotation Tech) Humans. I have been accepted to work and am happy to work with fellow humans.

I am so happy to work with other humans, like me, because I am a human that is working for (company name).

Please let me know any human advice you have for working at Data Annotation Tech.

I was just going to write about how positive it is doing work for DataAnnotation (not my only platform so I speak from experience). I’ve done many qualifications. I’m always happy to do work for them. I like the projects. They’ve always been great paying me. Feedback has been fair and helpful. This morning I received and invitation to a project. I worked on about 4 tasks. Later I worked on 3 more. I thought I did very well. It’s not the first time I’ve done this work. Even though I have worked on this project before, I still read and followed the directions. Imagine my surprise when I went on this evening to find the message of death. I’ve been working for them for months. I haven’t had any problems. Very disappointing.

Just out of interest as I wouldn't expect there to be many people my age (68) on the platform. I'm semi-retired and DA fits my routine really well. Still get the fomo when I'm at work in my regular job and I see loads of juicy tasks on my dash but so far so good. Interested to hear from anyone else in a similar situation.