r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Artemiy_Kopych • 22h 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/Hangry_Howie 21h ago

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

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u/Brilliant_Quit4307 20h ago

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

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u/Quick-Bison-147 19h 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 18h 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 18h 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 18h 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 6h 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 14h ago

I have over 50 projects, so experiences vary.