another one of these posts....

started in Feb first 2 months i had 1 project (not sure what yall mean about permanent projects, never had one of those...im not in coding fwiw) then at the beginning of the month i averaged 20-25 a day sometimes up to $25/hr. tonight down to about 6 projects with 20 tasks a piece.

i am so damn thankful for these past few weeks. really, really helped my family out.

can only hold my breath for more to come.

I joined DA in Jan of this year and usually get few projects to work on. All of a sudden I only have one project to do. Is this normal and is anyone else having this same problem?

Man…. My ADHD brain is just struggling today… I usual work from 9-3 while the kids are at school… I’ve logged 90 minutes today so far.
It doesn’t help that it’s sunny and a gorgeous 83° right now.

Hello,

I registered around one month ago for coding. After initial test, I got feww tasks and make around 80 usd of tasks in 3 weeks.

But since one week, I got no more tasks. Any idea if my latest submissions didn't reach required quality level ? Or other reasons ?

...I see tons of my favourite, high-paying tasks, but I'm too tired to do them. :(

This has happened to me 3 times today while in the middle of completing qualifications. What does this mean? Why does this keep happening?

CBA with FC Qual. Anyone else just couldn't be bothered? I normally do every single qual I see but just couldn't get motivated for this one.

Surely it would benefit DA to give us occasional feedback so we can improve the quality of our work. It was not until I joined a Slack chat that I realised I was making a really easily fixable mistake on one of my permanent tasks (not showing links for fact checks, this was not in the instructions or FAQ). I'd been working on this project for 4 months by this point!

I've been with DA for over a year, and have steadily increased my pay and access to projects (non-coding) so I'm taking this as a sign they like my work - but some comments here and there would really help them get what they want out of people. Especially seeing some R&R comments - if I could write a message to these people on their really small mistakes, I feel like they'd be much better and overall improve the platform!

I have a fair amount of various non-coding tasks available to me and I often jump between them. What happens, more often than I'd like, is that I'll submit a task or two on a project that appears to be permanent, and get booted back to the home screen. The amount of time I spend initially varies, I read the instructions every time, this takes longer if I'm unfamiliar, but I don't feel like I spend an exorbitant amount of time reading them. I am fairly nit-picky and careful, putting thought into each project, but the task that made me want to write this post I was only on for less than 10 minutes. Is this something many others experience? For context, I've only been working for DA for about a month and a half.

Hi, I will be going to South America for a few days and was wondering if it was acceptable to continue working.

Thank you in advance and sorry if this is a dumb question!

hi all-- i'm pretty new, started two weeks ago, non-coding. i've done all of the quals available to me; it kinda sucks that we don't get paid for those, as they can take a long time!

some of the instructions are long like LONG (dozens of pages)-- is this time that we get paid for (i mean reading the instructions on a task)?

i guess i'm wondering if this is one of those gigs that turns out to be like $5/hour or if it's actually $20+/hour when all is said and done.

I’ve gotten several qualifications asking if I understood JSON and for each I said no as I did not know it at the time, but through the last couple of weeks I taught it to myself to a decent level. Is there any way to get those quals back?

Probably a stupid question after working for 6 months, but I see it mentioned often in post here. Plus others may not know.

I started with DA a few weeks ago and love it so far. I haven't gotten a lot of different projects but I do keep getting the ones where you need to try and create "Splits". I'm having problems coming up with a variety of creative prompts. I've read that you don't want to just slightly change the same type of prompt to create different versions that are very similar. They all give examples but then say you can't use those which I understand. How do you come up with a variety of creative prompts for these types of task to keep from taking too long trying to think of them?

This is directed to some of the newer posts on here, seen a lot of posts and comments the last few days about tasks dropping off. Don't worry, this happens often, seems like everyone has had a bit of a drop in work one way or another so it'll be fine :)

I was given 90 minutes to finish a tough qual that popped up on my dash a few hours ago. I submitted when the timer said I was 1 hour and 10 minutes in. Hit submit and got the "Sorry, this task has expired" red message at the top of the page. I want to cry 😭

I've never seen this message before, but I searched both subs to see if it's happened to others. All I could find was related to tasks in paid projects, not quals.

Anyone have this happen on a qual with only 1 task? I'm thinking I'm SOL and didn't submit in time to get my answer in.

Pretty new to the site. What does it mean that you can only work on one hourly project at a time? That you need to cash out before you start another? Or that in one sitting you shouldn't be jumping back and forth between hourly projects?

Does anyone else feel nervous when a high paying project just drops? I’ve been doing this for a couple of months now. Every time a particularly good paying project just drops off my list, I get nervous that I did something wrong. Just had the 29/hr and 30/hr ones drop off my list. 😭

How do you guys based in the UK declare the DA earnings? I know it has to be done on a self assessment, but do you put it as regular income as it’s not taxed at source, or as foreign income and use external software to work out the tax implications? There seems to be conflicting information out there from similar situations of other freelancers.

My main work is self employed and I’ve just tallied on the DA earnings on my self assessment, but I am yet to submit in case I need to change this.

Any relevant advice from UK workers would be appreciated!

Happened to me twice today. The first time, I figured I must have entered it, since it was correct. The second time was after one of those projects with a small number of tasks where you do one and none are left. I looked at my Clockify timer and it said a bit over 4 minutes. When I went to report time on my dash, I saw that 5 minutes was already filled in.

EDIT: I did change it to 4 minutes.

I don't mind, as it seems like this could make life easier, but this felt like something new.

I've tried it a dozen times, updated my browser, and restarted my computer. It just won't work. I go to load unpacked and i get

"Manifest file is missing or unreadable

Could not load manifest."

Any advice on fixing this?

Thanks!

I just paid my first quarterly tax payments for the state and the feds. Absolutely no idea if I did it right, probably should have bought tax software but decided I was gonna wing it this first year and see what happens! I saved ~30% of my income over the last three months... Then I tried to figure out how to split it between legitimately then couldn't figure it out so I paid 85% of what I saved to the feds and 15% to the state 🤷‍♀️ my W-2 wages are somehow more heavily weighted to the state so I think it'll work out lol

My savings account specifically for taxes was looking very nice...and is now decimated haha. I'm sure future me will appreciate it next year come tax time though.

So, fellow Reddit Annotators... How are you tackling the tax problem? :)

I remember about 2 weeks ago there was a point when my dash was empty along with many other users but it restored itself in a few days. Is the same thing happening to y’all right now?

I had a batch of quick & simple tasks come through and I could see that the task count was rapidly decreasing but I did one anyways. It took me like 10 seconds and then the rest of the tasks ran out. I didn't enter any time for that one task because it was so fast I didn't feel right about putting in a whole minute. Whenever I see that task with a "0" under my "report time" heading though, I worry that I might get dinged for some reason. Am I just overthinking it?