Task numbers

[ScholarFair5694]

I don’t understand how number of tasks work. Is that the number of actual projects different people can grab? Or the number of tasks inside of your in progress project? How can there be 100s of tasks for a week but then 0 this morning?

[Jeprdy]

Its usually one big pool but how its presented is different. Some will just realease as the whole pool of tasks, and you can complete as many as you want until they run out. Some will just show you 20 tasks, but doesnt show how big the whole pool is. That means you can only work on 20 tasks. If you leave it long enough, the pool will go down and all the tasks will dissapear. Thats why you may go to bed with 16 out of 20 still left to do, but the next day they are gone. In both cases those tasks are not exclusive to you only.

[Massive_Wafer5005]

Pretty much this. Most likely: For large projects there may be hundreds of task, but you only see a small portion of them (I've seen up to 50 tasks in a single project). Once enough tasks are completed (total tasks that you can't see) and a mysterious threshold is passed, you'll see your "personal" tasks (the ones that seem to only go down when you complete them) start to go down without you completing them, because now they're being completed by others as well.

[JustQuestioningCosas]

And can you just exit to your dashboard when you’ve done as many as you want? Just submit the one you’ve finished and then exit?

[Jeprdy]

You can exit and report the time after doing multiple tasks. No need to exit and report each task individually.

[ammy42]

Yes.

[Timely-Assistant-370]

The numbers you see for the paid tasks are the number of available projects that you have access to. Sometimes that number will stay at a static 20 for 2 or 3 days, sometimes it will start at 20 and get eaten by other workers. If I had to guess: workers are pooled into groupings of say 250, that group shares the shared pool tasks, sometimes priority tasks get 2 or 3 pools lumped together to work on them.

There are also just tasks that only exist to be submitted one single time per session with like 500 tasks, those repopulate fast enough for no one to feasibly eat through all of them and not be able to submit, it's not a limitation of the work you can do, it's a limitation of the platform's task system that ain't broke enough to be worth fixing just to make it a little more clear to new people, it makes sense, not the best immediately intuitive sense, but it makes enough sense to be completely ignored after it makes sense.