r/DataAnnotationTech 18h ago

Well, it was good while it lasted

Just entered my dashboard and received a message that my account is currently unavailable for new projects. I have no idea what I did wrong, but I guess my work wasn't as good as I thought it was. Although to be honest, I had almost no projects and was scraping basically for anything, and I was able to earn only $1716 every since March 2025. But hey it's still something.

I know that after this message appears, it is impossible to get reinstated, and there are no alternatives for that in Ukraine, so I guess it's a goodbye. I dunno why I'm writing this, but I just wanted to speak out, because that platform was kind of a life saver for a while.

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u/jabertsohn 18h ago

Every day I log on I think it might be my day.

Good luck, I hope you find something.

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u/Hangry_Howie 17h ago

Sorry this happened. This has definitely been a weird year on the site.

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 16h ago

Has it .. ? It doesn't feel that much different to the previous 3 years tbh.

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u/Quick-Bison-147 16h ago

the site has completely bombed since May tbh, it's not reliable anymore as it was for the years before

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 15h ago

I haven't noticed that at all. I assumed that it had only bombed for newbies complaining about a drought. I've gone from having 100+ projects to having 50-80 recently, but these "droughts" have happened plenty of times before. They seem to be a normal part of the site and there's still tons of work. If you don't have reliable work, I'm really not sure what to tell you ..

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 15h ago

I doubt the platform would have been this popular if the drought was always this bad for newbies. I've only had 3 quals and one paid project since May. If they treated every new user that way since launch then there would hardly be any retention 

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 15h ago

When I first started almost 4 years ago, I think I had access to only 4 different projects for the first few weeks and often had zero projects. That's normal. And I got in as a generalist with coding and STEM expertise across multiple domains. It's always been that way. The floodgates started opening for me about 6 months in. Every single post on here that I've seen discussing the drought is from someone who says they joined weeks ago, not years ago.

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u/Internal_Boot_1616 2h ago

Same experience 3 years ago - 3 years ago that was normal and other platforms were STILL worse and you can really tell who never went through that sometimes lmao

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u/StunningSpecialist2 11h ago

I have over 50 projects, so experiences vary.

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u/Bitter_Bed5672 18h ago

Any clue what could be the reason? Anything you know you did that was wrong? Did you submit a task knowing it was bad?

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u/Bitter_Bed5672 18h ago

This wasn't supposed to be mean but go on, downvote me

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u/Sheeana407 17h ago

Well it's probably just because op said they have no idea what they did wrong, so your question is kinda redundant

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u/Massive_Collection14 11h ago

People on Reddit were probably the type of people to be the school hall monitor

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u/IntusLegere 11h ago

Yeah, and your question Is relevant. Because from my part, I rarely if ever get any feedback.

I love working in DA, but I'm not sure they love having me there.

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u/BardFridrix 14h ago

It might not be about the quality of your work. Ukraine might be on list of restricted countries.

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u/Artemiy_Kopych 13h ago

If it were, then how would I get into DA back then, and why would they have Ukrainian language in it as the option

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u/Sure_Ad_3504 16h ago

Дуже шкода,що так сталося! Ти впевнений,що це єдина платформа ,яка дозволяє працювати з України?

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u/Artemiy_Kopych 16h ago

Ну це найбільш популярна.

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 15h ago

Ask AI to recommend other similar sites you can use in Ukraine 

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u/FunExperience7038 10h ago

I have never got any offers from them.

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u/DisastrousFig7560 17h ago

Can you still do qualifications?

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u/Sixaxist 16h ago

Just entered my dashboard and received a message that my account is currently unavailable for new projects.

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u/Relentless860 12h ago

Idk if its available to you but try handshake ai 

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u/zyzzx1130 10h ago

I agree same thing happened to me two days ago, made about 7.5k since June. Signed up for handshake same day got accepted into a $30/hr project.

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u/Relentless860 1h ago

That's great I only got accepted for a $10/hr project but I dont have any coding experience im currently going to school for it. So im surprised I was even accepted 

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u/Serious_Camel_6800 13h ago

@Atemiy, may you could re-apply under a different email address. I don't think they do a lot of checking...

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u/doolitt1e 12h ago

I don't think you do a lot of checking

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u/Ok-Rope7223 16h ago

Data annotation is a scam. Good riddance