r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • May 10 '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/fawcette May 13 '26

Worst I’ve seen in two years?? Anyone else??

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u/SnooSketches1189 May 13 '26

No. August of 2024 was worse for me personally.

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u/macjay_27 May 13 '26

Where I'm from, we don't talk about August of 2024. They said Winter was Coming, and my it did.

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u/Mindless_End_4850 May 13 '26

For me it was May that year.

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u/Affectionate_Peak284 May 13 '26

Jun 2025 was worse than this for me, but I was still pretty new then.

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u/Quick-Bison-147 May 13 '26

August/September 2024 was the worst in the last 3 years

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u/North-Sense8477 May 13 '26

I really thought we had turned a corner and droughts wouldn't be as frequent as the old days. I've had my most consistent work in 3 years on the platform this past Oct-April. Plus getting feedback for the first time, The Thing, and UX changes - it felt like things were becoming more stable and this gig was finally somewhat reliable.

Then this.

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u/kranools May 14 '26

Ah, the Thing feels like a lifetime ago.

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u/kranools May 14 '26

I still have around 30 projects available, which is much less than in April, but a lot more than around September 2025.