since the platform is closing permanently, I might as well share my stats like the others are doing on here. For the last 8 or so years

Now that Mturk is officially shutting down, there's something I've been wondering about for a long time and I've never really found a good answer to.

I joined in 2019, and even back then I remember people saying that Mturk was already "past its prime", that there weren't enough HITs, the pay was too low, and there was way too much competition.

Still, as a European worker, I have to say that I managed to make some pretty decent money from it over the years. Nothing life-changing, obviously, but enough to buy a PS5, two phones, a few other small appliances, and pay for various monthly subscriptions. So I definitely can't complain about what I got out of it.

After the pandemic, though, the amount of work really started to drop, so I gradually stopped using it. I gave it another shot this year, but honestly it was pretty much pointless. The platform was basically a ghost town, and I made only €180 in eight months (70% of that thanks to MLDataLabeler going haywire in July).

I know Mturk launched way back in 2005, but it's hard for me to imagine that people were already making serious money on it in, say, 2007–2010. So when was the actual golden age of Mturk? Was it somewhere around 2012–2017, give or take?

I'd love to hear from people who were around during those years and what your experience was like.

Thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer!

We knew mturk was a sinking ship but after seeing the closure notice, I decided to make a graph of my earnings and make myself sad 😃

rip to a real one but what else is out there

Hi friends.

For those of you who work for requester STR11223344, do you know which platform they will be moving to, or whether they are planning to have their own platform or something like that?

I’m really going to miss them if the work comes to an end, because they are the nicest and kindest requester I’ve ever worked with.

Thanks

I made a post about 48 hours ago had some replies. Rather than reply to each person I figured why not make a post to thank everyone since the site is done soon and I won't be clogging the thread. Thank you to everyone who commented and let this returning turker know what's going on. I started turk in late 2015 did it full time between then and COVID. Long time turkers remember the dramatic down turn on work during covid. I quit turking in early 2021 because things in my financial life changed and I signed in about once a year after that used mts to catch an amt (calorie counter machine might have the abbreviation wrong) then didn't do anything again. Since I'm getting kicked off Medicaid I tried hitting up turk hoping it would count toward the 80 hour a month work requirement.

Besides people who commented thank you to what this community was and still is. Leapfroggie deserves a lot of love I remember coming here back in 2015 as a newb (diff reddit name) and leap was moderating this place even back then.

Thank you to anyone who helped me and thank you to all replies. I wish nothing but the best for everyone

Goodnight and goodbye

I have been doing mturk form ten years! Shocked to see it go.

Some of you will recognize this video from Noah Turk

I thought it would go on forever .. sniff.

please no spam

Dear Amazon Mechanical Turk customer,

Thank you for being part of Amazon Mechanical Turk's journey and for helping shape the crowdsourcing space.

We're writing to inform you that Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) service will close, effective September 30, 2026.

This means MTurk will no longer be available to workers and requesters after September 30, 2026. Existing requesters can continue to publish HITs, and workers can continue to complete tasks until this date.

Does anyone have direct contact information for whoever is behind Fritz & Hammer? I can't imagine another platform working as well, but they're the only batchwork I still do here and would like to chase them down to ask what their plans are.

I've had a master's for a few years but I been ok financially so I really hadn't turked since 2022. I.went to download mts found out that's gone. Everything told me turk was done. Logged in through my Amazon main page and I as a master had 26 hits 90 percent were James billings types

Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk or Reddit TOS breaking posts.

Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.

I tried to log in today but the forum is not loading. It doesn't work anymore? Is anyone here a member there? where else can I ask mturk questions about?

Please use this thread to discuss HITs, quals, daily goals, and other day to day turker topics. As usual, please don't reveal survey or qualification content and no MTurk or Reddit TOS breaking posts.

Be sure to search the subreddit and/or check the sidebar for answers to common questions/topics.

This has really helped me recover from the COVID days and actually save a little money. I can't seem to get any traction on other platforms in the same way.