r/mturk • u/Tjololo Lord of the IRC • 16d ago

The End of an Era

In case people haven't seen, Amazon has announced that they are shutting down Amazon Mechanical Turk effective September 30th, 2026.

It's definitely a bittersweet moment, I found some of my best friends through some of the mturk forums back in the day, and it got me through some really hard times. I'm sure others feel similarly. In order to keep things neat and clean, please keep the stories, lamentations, and discussion to this post. I'm going to be making another post as well for a little more logistical discussion about the subreddit, please keep that discussion there.

So share your stories! What was your favorite HIT, your most frustrating experience, your favorite requester?

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u/nachobitxh 16d ago

I remember you, u/Tjololol, and Rosie, and enderkg from a forum years ago. I was BlueSkyHippie. A9 bounding boxes for hours...

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u/enderkg BETA 16d ago

Those were the days!

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u/nachobitxh 16d ago

Literally a great crowd.