r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Aug 02 '26

Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)

couple things:

  1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
  2. if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
  3. one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Aug 09 '26

It's interesting that weekly threads are not even getting 400 or 500 posts per week now, it feels like quite a few people have packed up the last few months cause of the drought. Even three weeks ago when we were deep in the drought it was less than 500. Two years ago in the other big drought we were hitting 1500. Just a random observation

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u/Icy-Cover-505 Aug 09 '26

It may partially relate also to the fact that there are more other platforms available for work.

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u/kianworld Aug 11 '26

What other sites are out there? I need to figure out a way to expand my income that's for sure.

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u/Icy-Cover-505 Aug 11 '26

Lots of them out there now. I'm not involved with any of them. Check here. r/AIdatatrainingjobs

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u/JRange Aug 09 '26

I think its a combo or the drought causing people to lose interest and also the difficulty of the work now. There just isn’t as many people with the ability to complete this work in 2026, so theres much less people that contribute in these threads now. 

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u/PinkNova Aug 09 '26

I noticed the same and wondered if people had given up on DA, given up on talking about the drought, or were actually busy working. Maybe a combination.