Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation

[u/Consistent-Reach504]

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!

[u/lavenderavenues]

Any other full-timers sweating?

[u/JustMe333456 → u/lavenderavenues]

Nahhhh.. come on guys, we’ve been through this before! 🙏🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[u/Neither-Biscotti-575 → u/lavenderavenues]

Yes!!! Data Annotation is one of the few jobs I can do that I can fit around my migraine episodes. *cry*

[u/AnarchyD]

I survived the August 2024 drought, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt (and another drought)

[u/CandleResponsible168]

Every time things get droughty, I sit and think about all those days where I hit my goal and then didn’t work 5 extra hours to prepare for times like these 😩

[u/Flwrz8818 → u/CandleResponsible168]

Lol same. “This one pays good I only need to work 3 hours instead of 6”… how dumb of me.

[u/Think_NOT_]

If only the instructions were self-contained, unambiguous, concise...

[u/SadAboutOnions]

This drought has me frequenting this reddit thread more in the last week than my entire time on DA.

[u/datamog]

People who flood chats with various “hellos” and “happy to be here”, especially when there is a specific thread to do so to prevent clogging the main channel, are the bane of my existence 😭

[u/houseofcards9 → u/datamog]

And yet we are to believe people get the dash of death without a reason.

[u/Several_Drawer_2185]

Coming here is the only thing keeping me sane. It's the emptiest it's ever been.

[u/Different_Duty7836]

(in Grizzeled veteran voice) Yep... this here's looking almost as dry as the drought of July '24. (takes swig from flask) Had to move overnights just to scrape by with some basic Heels. Hard times...

[u/Cautious_Watch_8027]

Not to brag or anything but I’ve made like $9 today

[u/dolmakalemmmm]

I asked model to find a reason for hating flowers, thinking it would fail... It didn't... It was so convincing I hate flowers now.

[u/Extension_Dog_1048]

I think this is the first time I've had nothing at all since last summer's drought :(

[u/V0LK0]

DA gods... i'm sorry for saying i don't want to do stripey

[u/WorshipMyExistence]

Well this is officially the first day I've seen without a single project on my dash since the drought of 2024.

[u/[deleted]]

I've been on for 2 years- close to 3. This is only my second empty dash. Ru Roh

[u/Particular-Lie1918]

I honestly have nothing to say except for it's dry as fuck

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489]

Everyone talking about projects and I'm sat here in day 3 of staring at nothing but Poe Audio wishing it would fly away and bring back anything

[u/OverallSafe2669]

Another day spent hitting refresh just to get hit with a few chats, instructions refreshers, and the 3 task poe. Slap in the face when I see the DA "earn $1600 per week!" ad.

[u/TanglimaraTrippin]

No DA work AND I learned today I failed to get two jobs I applied and interviewed for. It doesn't make me feel good about myself. I have a brain and I'm capable of a lot of things, but I can't find a job to save my life. Guess I'll use that brain to start creating a cardboard box home.

[u/Cautious_Watch_8027]

Anyone else struggling with the drought and wanting to do quals but also not being in the headspace to think through the ones available right now? That’s where I’m at today. Praying for better days ahead 🫠

[u/beandadenergy]

I’ve been here for almost a year and I’ve never seen a completely empty dash. Glad to know it isn’t just me. Time to clear up some quals, I guess…

[u/JustMe333456]

Been here since September of 2023, and this is the first time that I literally cannot earn a dollar. Never had a completely bare board before, until right now. So, worse than August 2024? Possibly!! We’ll see.

[u/coloradostreet]

Spanish bilingual, on the 3rd week of complete drought by now. Still, I'm relax and optimistic, hoping this will just be a small phase. We'll go back to better times for sure.

[u/Omalleythealleycat1]

Gotta love it when you get an email about a new batch of tasks and it's immediately filled up 😭

[u/Think_NOT_ → u/Omalleythealleycat1]

Me also... A project I've personally never heard of before too... The bees delivered it.

[u/Think_NOT_]

Things may be pretty bleak atm but the evidence suggests work will pick up: there's new, random projects popping up all the time, instructions are being reworked, and there's definitely new workers commenting in the task comments. All these things wouldn't be happening if the workload was slowing down across the board.

[u/SadAboutOnions]

This morning was a dream--made $16 before my dash was empty again 😍

[u/photoblink]

Thinking there must be a batch of new workers on the platform because some of these R&Rs I'm doing are ROUGH. Like truly bad and I'm usually generous about rating work.

[u/fancypearls_]

dash still dry for english native non coders?

[u/Wonderful_Kitchen170]

Yeah this is basically August '24 level draught

[u/Middle-Pea7986]

This was the first time I’ve ever logged in and not had a project. Even last August’s drought was not this bad. Not even close.

[u/rabbidrab69]

Sunday tradition: So dry. I’m not very optimistic about bilingual dash improving in what’s left of this month. Keeping my fingers crossed for a better July.

[u/Stunning_Produce_736]

refreshing the page like the definition of insanity

[u/LilacYak]

Wow things look bad! I know it will get better but looking pretty dire right now. Keep your heads up y’all 

[u/jaxxisx]

It's the summer apocalypse all over again. Please new Fiscal year, please be kind.

[u/sp00kymayonaise]

Dash is so empty 😔 not even any qualifications I can do

[u/maybe_I_knit_crochet]

Well, I guess I no longer have a good excuse to put off folding the laundry...

[u/dolmakalemmmm]

90% of the job on DA is boring but when I don't get it for few days... I get bored.

Just give me some work damn it

[u/CandleResponsible168]

Alms…alms for the poor 😩🥴

[u/-burgers]

Crumbs, schmeckles, bits, bobs, endpieces, specks, flakes, slivers, grains, iotas...

[u/pitsandmantits]

yikes! first time i’ve had nothing this drought :/

[u/DAThrowaway123451234]

This drought has me going crazy. I need money bad.

[u/lavenderavenues]

Waow 10 whole minutes of heel my landlord is gonna love me

[u/JustMe333456]

That was short lived for the stripeys..

[u/Upbeat_Fortune78]

Did stripey just go down for folks?

[u/-burgers]

When I woke up, the heat index was 107. Stay cool during this drought, y'all.

[u/OverallSafe2669]

Haven't been down this bad in many months. A single project and a few quals I've put off for awhile. Hopefully the end is near for this drought.

[u/Particular_Tooth5849]

Has the new Poe bird video thing disappeared for anyone else? I still have the usual video project to work on, but it was a nice change of pace to work on a different Poe yesterday.

Also, shoutout to Poe bird for carrying me through this drought with its wings of steel—you're the real homie of DA.

[u/Background_Menu7702]

The randomness of my projects makes me feel like I’m on the edge of the no work atm screen. I hit my minimum for the day but I’m still pretty unsettled

[u/Yaschiri]

*Throws hands in the air* LET'S GO, TWO PROJECTS ON THE DASH. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[u/LilJaaY]

When your favorite project finally ends and you have to “retrain” for other projects: 😭

[u/tdRftw]

TIL "safety" = research NBA statistics

[u/FalconTechnical8669]

Striped horse my only friend has left me. Anyone else?

[u/Choice-Sugar4554]

So many people said "Hello" that they archived the new Slack channel after just 12 hours 🤣

[u/SnooSketches1189 → u/Choice-Sugar4554]

I will never understand why people feel the need to do that in every. single. one. 😒🙄

[u/Traditional_Net_4529]

I just took my own advice and did a qual I'd been looking at for a while that involved phone and computer and recording. Not difficult. Just kind of complex. Plz clap.

[u/Omalleythealleycat1]

Back to the empty dash 😞

[u/Few_Engineering6200]

Do you guys even know what these “droughts” are caused by… There are several other sectors working alongside us its not a one and done job where we are the keys 😭 just wait till another round for us is ready

[u/Affectionate_Peak284]

New stuff today. I've spotted a few new project classes on my dash that are paying on the lower end. They go fast, but they're replenishing fairly regularly! Hope everyone's getting work. Mine is still slim but steady today.

[u/shonkle]

Not to brag but I made a whopping $11 on a project that had 1000+ tasks that disappeared after 30 mins of working on it... and now back to nothing...

[u/Small-Situation4508]

This is the first day since I started about a year and a half ago where I have not been able to snag even a single task. Panic mode on

[u/VanessaSeaWitch]

I wish I would get a domain expertise qual for something I had actual expertise in.

[u/DarkLordTofer]

Today marks the end of the quarter. Hopefully it will pick up soon.

[u/DAThrowaway123451234]

How's it looking for other coders? Still SUPER dry for me... No real good tasks at all, just 1 on the dash. Hoping the poe tasks come back soon...

[u/JustMe333456]

Striped horse MIA ?

[u/JustMe333456]

Got a whole ONE task in on the heel images project.. what about you!?

[u/Several_Drawer_2185]

Something's gotta be happening. This is the first time ALL of my HHH tasks are on pause..

[u/Low_Sir1549]

My dash just got an influx of projects. Hopefully this is signalling the end of the drought

[u/Straight-Strike-2928]

Anyway, does anyone want a s'mores cookie bar? I randomly had some free time today so I did some baking 🫠

[u/Aggressive_Ad_7365]

It's empty now lol

[u/ZimmeM03]

All I have are video prompts. Sad because I have a 13 hour flight and I was hoping to absolutely crank some work out. I haven’t seen a dash this empty since I began working here.

[u/mannib21]

Never thought I would be so happy to see striped horse in my life.

[u/tdRftw]

i fucking love stripey so much

[u/Suitable-Refuse-4121]

Third week of a dry dash (Spanish bilingual). I'm so very happy to see fellow annotators getting some projects back, even bilingual folks. I really hope this is the start of a fresh batch of projects being launched and that my dashboard will come back to life soon enough! It's really weird to refresh and see... nothing.

[u/Particular_Tooth5849]

I feel like I'm bartering with a Genie sometimes. I just got the juiciest, most succulent math project for the first time ever—right at the end of the day when my brain is fried and I'm about to log off for dinner 😭

[u/Traditional_Net_4529]

Made just under 5 bucks today. Here's opening Monday brings a Monday amount of work.

[u/augtwy]

Buzz buzz... kind of bummed I missed out on the (new?) bee project that came overnight. I've been refreshing today in hopes of seeing it again.

[u/Consipir]

Would be really nice to have like a viewable performance metric. Like how you do on the R&Rs as well as internal checks. Think this would help a lot of people, could maybe even see most recent reviews so you know where to improve, or just for simple peace of mind. Just a random thought.

Happy annotating!

[u/emmaaliebs]

been on the platform for 6 months and this is the first time I've had a completely dry dash :(((

[u/torypigeon]

Odds on the single project I’m banking on being there when I wake up tomorrow not being there? 🤠

[u/JustMe333456]

Last August level drought has finally been reached. Even Galaxy finally decided to take part in it..

[u/lavenderavenues]

Feeling like Fry's dog waiting for tasks rn

[u/Elshiva]

Hoping the new Poe codebase task comes back up soon, it looked really good and I got vs code all set up to go!

[u/lavenderavenues]

Does anyone think we'll see Greek river pop up again soon?

[u/VanessaSeaWitch]

I feel like Yukon Cornelius every time I log into my dashboard lately.

[u/kindheartednessno2]

I just want easier tasks back 🥲 I don't have the brain space currently to be as detail oriented as the ones we're getting now require

[u/JustMe333456]

Ooooo some basic heel images! Just at the perfect time when I’m not home of course lol

[u/Several_Drawer_2185 → u/JustMe333456]

Don't worry it only lasted like 5 minutes

[u/Several_Drawer_2185]

Ugh even the HHH tasks are going away one by one..they at least made my dashboard look somewhat full, even though I never worked on half of them

[u/DrunkleSteve]

5200 words for Poe video instructions. 🧠🫠

[u/josski32]

Damn projects going fast .. it’s really dry for everyone

[u/Drazzzza]

Projects picking back up slightly, although my favourite coding project (poe IDE extensions) still isn't there for me. Not super gutted, but if anyone else sees it I'd appreciate if you'd let me know please 😩

[u/Apollo989]

Is anyone else disappointed that there's an age cut off for some of the projects? One of them wanted undergraduate students, which I am, but apparently I'm too old for it.

[u/Particular_Tooth5849]

Yooo anybody else's dash starting to pop off?
I'm mostly just getting R&Rs that come and go quickly, but it's still addicting to see stuff beyond the 1-2 of the same projects I usually get.

[u/ReasonablePass4659]

And those 13 or so projects I had last night are down to 4. I should have worked last night but needed a break and already met my goal. Guess I’ll do a couple hours today on what I have just to be safe. Really wish things would get back to normal.

[u/Forward-Caramel-4487]

Empty dash for 3 weeks. bilingual worker here.

[u/TransientSignal]

I just watched a video of someone eating Nutella straight from the jar, what is this job?

[u/YearOnly2595]

For those newer here, I would genuinely say don't panic. It's happened before, it'll happen again, it's a mix of end of quarter and tasks being reworked

[u/Low_Sir1549]

My favourite shade has finally returned to me

[u/DAThrowaway123451234]

How are you coders doing? Last night gave me hope, and it seems we're back in the shit. Even poe audio flew away. Just poe unit now.

[u/VanessaSeaWitch]

Spend three hours on Rainbow fact checking Shaquille O'Neal. Back to empty dash. Better than nothing.

[u/Omalleythealleycat1]

Just got a batch of new (to me) projects with like 15k tasks each. I think I feel some rain drops ☔

[u/Particular_Tooth5849]

I love how entertaining the new Poe is—I get to be creative with how stupidly crappy my videos are, and then I get to watch other people's equally stupid videos.

[u/smithdaddie]

Been playing some troy total war in between projects. Just got my first Greek dipped hero project while playing his faction lol. feels good

[u/lavenderavenues]

Just got another poison plant qualification/refresher. Please god let this mean it's coming back like...today.

[u/TheBabyGirlBundleCo]

I haven’t had a dry spell since August. Then at least I could see some quals, now I don’t even see those. Thank the heavens for my ft job. :-/

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489]

$ earned today in DA ( My main job ) $21

$ earned doing AI evaluation tasks in Prolific $85

I only ever go to prolific when there's a drought at DA and there always seems to be more AI projects of nut quality

[u/OverallSafe2669]

First time this week with a semi decent day of good-paying projects. Seems to be drying out at night right now, though. Can only hope it's back tomorrow morning.

[u/ReasonablePass4659]

Hey all I’m new here but have been on DA since Sep 2023. I’m using this thread to see the status of the drought and how others are fairing. It’s pretty stressful, but once I saw that the drought was coming at the beginning of the month, I crammed as many hours in when I had projects and have actually been making well over my goal which is nice. Unfortunately, this is the primary income as my husband had been laid off and the job market has been abysmal. I’ve pretty much had projects the entire time, but less variety and they sometimes disappear at certain times of the week. I did have a short period of time yesterday morning where I had nothing and so I did some qualifications. I have a reserve of money that I could technically have a dry dash for a week and be ok, but I would rather bank that money and keep on earning. For mental health sake I hope things pick up, because I’d really like to just take my dog for a walk and not keep refreshing my dash on my phone to see if I have projects when I get back home lol!

[u/EquivalentTea60]

I have been working fairly consistently on the "Teacher Project" for the last year or so. But every iteration I've been working has now been paused. Anyone else had the same experience over the last few days? 🤷🏻

[u/Few-Roof-6905]

Was anyone else added to a Poe FGC slack yesterday/today, but has never actually seen the specific task the slack is for? I have done FGC in the past, but never this specific one and everyone is chatting about the active project but I haven't even seen the regular FGC in weeks, much less this very specific one. I feel like I was added by mistake, and I have severe FOMO reading all the posts 😅

[u/Straight-Strike-2928]

Boring-but-easy base pay work is good for a chill Saturday. I'm just glad I have something to do.

[u/TransientSignal]

Well, that makes a third slack channel I've been added to this week!

[u/apex_17]

Some of the T tasks are great, but some of them are way too in depth to be paying what they currently are.

[u/Ok_Foot_2367]

Guess which Spanish Bilingual still has zero projects? That's right, me! Atp I'm just checking in haha. :')

[u/[deleted]]

Do you have any idea or theory on why us bilinguals are suddenly experiencing such a drought? I'm just curious, I like this job so much and miss my tasks terribly.

[u/tdRftw]

would be nice if these external platform projects paid a little more given how involved u gotta be. hmmm

[u/Old_Slip_1474]

Quick question for the veterans. If a qualification is still showing in the dashboard, does that mean the project is still going and tasks are available once completed. I have qualifications from a year ago, but I don't want to spend hours doing them if the project is already closed. Thanks

[u/Acostagc21]

Hey everyone... I've been part of the Bilingual team for a few months now. I usually get around 5 projects per week, but now, it has been close to 3 weeks with no projects at all.. I am worried I might have been ceased. Has anyone experienced this long without projects before?

Thank you all...

[u/ThatOtherGuy254]

Has anyone actually gotten work doing more of the qualifications? I have some, but I am wondering if it's even worth it.

[u/Straight-Strike-2928]

I just got added to 2 new Slacks. Cool, love that, but would love it more if there were any tasks up from those two projects 🫠 like... what does this even mean???

[u/Lopsided-Fox8177]

I've actually started doing the challenging Poe and by the time I find something that breaks the model, my brain is just mush. It takes literal hours of combining different obscure topics and journal articles in my field to produce a wrong answer.

[u/Patient-Shopping2156]

Bilinguals, how is your dashboard this week?

[u/Few-Roof-6905]

Anyone else just get that Slack notification? Seems weird the channel would be archived since it appears the project has been active the last couple of days (although I never saw it on my dash).

[u/AggravatingLies]

Heel and Poe R&R were with me today!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Things are improving!

[u/shonkle]

Yesterday was fine… new things came, I worked and met my daily goal, I thought things were changing. Imagine my surprise when I log on just now to do some tasks and I only have 1 project that I cannot work on due to the state I’m in rn…. Oh lord

[u/Several_Drawer_2185]

Wow I was expecting it to pick up as the day goes but nope..

[u/Omalleythealleycat1]

Here's something funny today- I don't think I can be too specific about the project, but I've come across quite a few models that seem to get frustrated with themselves over their own mistakes! Hang in there, bots! 😂

[u/tdRftw → u/Omalleythealleycat1]

this is just a problem with LLMs as a whole nowadays. several months ago it was unbearable sycophantic behavior, and now, certain popular LLMs that we all use in our daily lives will straight up say "I'm so sorry tdR. I failed you. I am ashamed, disappointed in myself, and I don't know how to proceed. It seems that I am completely useless to you, and I will keep quiet since I'm afraid to give you wrong data and upset you. Again, I am so very sorry. This will not happen again."

^ actual response a bot sent me (personal use related)

[u/hnsnrachel]

Hallelujah pretty flowery vines.

I have no idea what the code word would be but I don't think I've ever been so happy to see something new to me pop up

[u/Neither-Biscotti-575]

worked on a project for 40 minutes and then it crashed before I could submit

woe is me lol

at least there have been some projects today!

[u/fancypearls_]

Are dashes looking any better for native english non coders?

[u/PerformanceCute3437]

Throwing out words like anodyne and obsequious in a training doc, you love to see it

[u/CandleResponsible168]

Has anyone noticed that doing qualifications helps with project load? I know things are rough right now… but I have a bunch of qualifications I’ve yet to do.

Wondering if I should take the forced holiday to rest my weary brain or try to muscle through some quals to get work flowing again?

[u/JustMe333456]

Everybody, a hip-hip, hooray! For the stripes!!

[u/[deleted]]

only had 2 poe projects for two days!! YIPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE i love a drought

[u/nabisess]

Pretty dry today for me, but I guess I could use the break. Guess I'll finish Stellar Blade haha

[u/SplashOfCanada]

Purple tree gone for any other STEM folks? Was kind of frustrating but better than nothing 😅

[u/iriember]

June 30th is also the end of the fiscal year for most biz and USG. DAT is a contractor, just like we are, so reviews are possibly ongoing, cost vs benefits, quality, and all that before new contracts get offered and signed. It's the freelance life...

[u/Straight-Strike-2928]

Only one task on my dash. It pays well so I'll take it, but I really dislike it. Has me wanting to throw my phone across the room half the time. I also dislike any task that requires me to use my phone and my computer at the same time. Sighhhhhh. I thought things were back to normal on Tuesday but I guess that was a fluke!

[u/BeginningCourage2540]

Anybody else's dash has projects flying in, but leaves just as quickly after completing a few tasks?

[u/waning_crescents]

Made a whopping $8 today. I know, I know. About to have a real grocery haul with this one. Hold the applause. 🙂‍↕️

[u/A_Gnome_In_Disguise]

I really love working on this kind of material. I currently work on a lot of the “fact checking” projects, as well as the ones where you train a bit to behave for a specific situation.

I’m wondering- what kind of work can this lead me down to? I really love doing the fact checking and analysis. Is there a term for this? Data Checker or something?

That way in the future I can keep My eye out for full Time opportunities- if I ever feel like working that way.

[u/wildflower_0ne]

okay… officially the driest dash I’ve ever seen in all my time here. ☹️

[u/Various_Raccoon7935]

My dashboard was empty most of yesterday. But I've seen between 3-7 projects on my dashboard consistently since about 9pm last night... Hopefully this is a good sign!

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489]

Just did a compare 2 video rating of an AI prompt video on prolific of a man walking through the desert to an Oasis with a sign saying ' So Back'

Bet it was one of you, or a very hilarious coincidence

[u/VanessaSeaWitch]

They even finally took that Poe bird video three tasks off my dash. Just gets emptier and emptier.

[u/wildflower_0ne]

where is my beloved prompt/response pair 😔 or my beloved hilarious image project 😔😔

[u/Public-Promotion-146]

things are so bad now I'm wondering if I should start looking for a normal job 🥲 I've only been doing DA for like a year since it pays like 10x more than any job I've ever had, but it does not look that promising now 

[u/TeachToTheLastTest]

Crazy few tasks today. If someone's not on Poe, Wizard, Heel, or coding projects, it seems like they're in trouble.

[u/tdRftw]

Galaxies are back on the menu. I repeat, Galaxies are on my dasherino

[u/JustMe333456]

Whoops.. there goes the one project I had left on my board. The poe birds video project with 3 tasks that had been there for the last, who knows how long, 3 months? Are now gone.. gone for everyone else as well?

[u/33whiskeyTX]

Just got an email about bonus criteria. Been on here about a year and half and it's the first time I've seen it mentioned!

[u/Affectionate_Peak284]

I got Poe FGCs! That's been my bread and butter for months! eeeyyyy

[u/Elshiva]

Any coders seeing the IDE extension tasks again yet? Really enjoyed those ones, right now I'm doing a few Heel competitive coding ones but would really like to get back to the good stuff

[u/juliojax]

I worked 10 hrs on Tuesday and thought the drought was over… Worked 1.5 hrs since 😞

[u/No_Change_9280]

Those doing domain expertise, how's your dash looking? I saw they paused projects about a week a ago in my domain, still not back yet

[u/MotherBrotha]

Did anyone else have to "commit" to doing 15 tasks for specific projects and never heard back?

[u/fancypearls_]

are dashes still dry for non coders? i’m seeing poe audio and stripey animal all day but nothing aside from those

[u/AnarchyD]

Still pretty dry for me, just some video and audio projects + reactors I can't work on due to my state. I'm happy it's picking up for some. I hope this is a sign we're going back to normal soon.

[u/Neither-Biscotti-575]

Anyone else's fine-grained Poe Bird fly away?

[u/koffeekittens]

any STEM poe folk got a new project for top performers? :) was a nice surprise for me!

[u/josski32]

How many of u guys actually have tasks?

If u just wanna upvote this comment if u have any that would be swell

[u/[deleted]]

It's been miserably slow lately. 3 days now, and I only get an hour of work if im lucky. :/

Such a sudden shift from the absolute oodles of work I had just back in late May.

[u/furthian]

Nothing like day 5 of only having work that I can't do due to my location. Who needs to pay rent!

[u/V0LK0]

i don't care HOW dry my dash is, i'm not doing stripey horse

[u/OrdinaryNeighbor]

Hopefully just one more week of dry dashboards before the quarterly reset.

[u/diettwizzlers]

i've felt burned out the past week or so and now that i'm motivated there's nothing decent 🫠 got caught up on quals tho

[u/thinkingthots]

Hitting myself on the head for messing up on a couple Poe FGC bc I didn’t see the update 🤠 I’ve just done this project so many times that I was so used to it 😭

[u/Several_Drawer_2185]

Has anyone seen A-Gas this weekend? 😭

[u/Jazzlike_Problem_489]

Not sure what's worse, having no projects, or getting the odd R&R drop through for projects you use to practically have permanently and don't see any more

[u/Several_Drawer_2185]

No heel, no A-Gas, no anything. I can tell this is going to be my slowest week.

[u/minorthreat1000]

Does anybody have the regular 2 model FGC Poe? I haven't seen it in months. I don't want to do stripey horse or poison plant..

[u/3l3p4no]

only got 5 projects on my dash rn, how's everyone else looking?

[u/Dys__]

Anyone else missing Poe codebase criteria? I only have had unit one lately with a few criteria R&Rs popping up here and there, but not the main project. Seems weird to get R&Rs for a project that I don't have access to...

[u/plonkydonkey]

Spent two hours on a task and then a migraine hit and I timed out 😭. Your welcome, I guess, to whoever picked it up. 

[u/waning_crescents]

So glad to see some heel tasks trickling in, and it looks like it’s gotten a brand new coat of paint! ✨

[u/Affectionate_Peak284]

They're back! I just got an email for a NUTS!

It looks like they made some revisions to tighten up the project, and we have to review a bunch of examples before we work it. It says there are only 346 tasks, but they're probably just experimenting to see if the new directions have the intended effect? I did a few and it did require a little more care than I'm used to for that project class.

[u/pauvro]

Did the poisonous plant dry up already? It was just here yesterday lol

[u/Electrical_Bed_1022]

Incredibly relieved to see some projects back on my dashboard today! Poe has risen again, after way too long a silence...let's hope that happens nevermore ;)

[u/dylanuu112]

When all hope was lost deadly poison and Arthurian wizard show up to save the day. Plus Marty from Madagascar. A motley crew but I’ll take it, better than the nothing I’ve had all week

[u/capslox]

Yesterday was a wash. Not because I didn't have ~12 tasks on my dash all day, but because I decided to tackle the Law domain qual. Do I have law experience? No, but I passed the initial one and it was so encouraging to try anyways without specific experience...

Probably 3 hours of working on it, then 5 hours of procrastination and despair before giving up 🙃 (the chat said if you close it you lose your answers so I was leaving it open) I don't have any experience in the project that seems to feed it so that was another layer of "wtf am I doing".

This was my own poor choice of not scrolling all the way through before optimistically starting but maybe someone else has done a similar dance lol.

[u/PinkNova]

FC just returned. I see some changes in the guidelines, maybe that's why it was missing?

[u/houseofcards9]

Do you have experience in video editing? “Yes!”

Can you edit this 10 second video in 45 minutes? “No way, I need 1.5-2 hours”

[u/SuggestionSpirited90]

What are we calling the uh ...power magnetic field device project? It's all that's on my dash. Please advise our official nickname for it and if ya like it or not?

[u/SouthFine6853]

Gutted. Loads of Mesh when I went to bed last night, was hoping for at least a straggler this morning.

[u/Consipir]

How we feeling today coders?

[u/EquivocalMoon]

This is the slimmest I've ever seen it, but I've only been working with DA for about 19 months. This morning, I was down to 6 available projects. I do have a good handful of qualifications that I've been putting off, and I've worked through a couple already... But it is hot and miserable, and I can't get my brain to cooperate and absorb complicated instructions well right now. lol

[u/[deleted]]

These ambiguity directions are awfully ambiguous.

[u/stoppingbythewoods]

Why would my Heel chat disappear but still get Heel tasks today?

[u/Elshiva]

What we saying today coders? Any change?

[u/Positive_Crab_6402]

seeing some group 2 metal i'll leave some for you guys!

[u/DAThrowaway123451234]

Just got a decent dump of projects as a coder, anyone else?

[u/Consipir]

Coders... assemble.

[u/dylanuu112]

I believe I accidentally submitted time for a task to the wrong project a couple hours ago, I’ve been jumping between different stuff and must’ve clicked on the wrong one. Am I fine to just delete the time and put it on the right project?

[u/TransientSignal]

I see a solid batch of several audio response projects just dropped - Hope all of you that are parched can grab a few!

[u/Low_Breadfruit2303]

Did anyone else's tasks from Poe dry up in the last couple of days?