News & Announcements

Welcome to TurkerHub

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 06:50:22 +0000

Since our venerable home, MTG, is apparently now hosted on a toaster I've put up this site to see if we can't upgrade to an easy bake oven.

Will post a suggestions threads to look for add-ons, smilies, features, styles, etc to add here but for now at least we have a daily thread and live update for everyone.

View API Details

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:01:06 +0000

tl;dr

Everyone will need an API Key starting Feb 1 Feb 7th in order to use TV with any script.
- They can be claimed here for free.
The first month is free for every user. Once that first month ends the price is discounted at $5/month for users that sign up before...

View API Details

MTurk Suite & TurkerView Additions

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 04:27:52 +0000

tl;dr

MTurk Suite (MTS) has been updated to function with TurkerView's new View API [details here]
Everyone will need an API Key starting Feb 1 Feb 7 in order to use TV with MTS.
- They can be claimed here for free.
- Delayed cutoffs by a week due to time constraints in getting the push out to Kada....

MTurk Suite & TurkerView Additions

QualifEye - MTurk Qualification Watch System

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:26:08 +0000

Just copying this into it's own thread since it'll be lost to the sands of time otherwise in the Daily subforum.

QualifEye? What is this? Why do you love puns?

The long & short of it is that you can now use TurkerView itself to alert you to brand new qualification tests & potential qualification hits on MTurk. You don't need to be logged into MTurk, and this will not use any of your valuable page requests to do it's work.

This allows you to focus on the work...

QualifEye - MTurk Qualification Watch System

TurkerViewJS 10

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Sun, 08 Sep 2019 17:56:34 +0000

This is a large change, mostly aimed at moving TVJS into a slightly different role. Most likely moving forward TVJS will be more of a beta playground where I can test new features before pushing them upstream to more "stable" apps (Forker, MTS, etc).

To that end, there is a lot of new stuff in here. By far the most important is:

Review Approval Time Auto-Updating

While we understand the old AA on www was being abused by some workers in order to submit...

TurkerViewJS 10

Deprecating Old API Endpoints

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 15:28:58 +0000

The following schedule should be used as a guideline for anyone still relying on TurkerView's old API infrastructure:

Endpoint	Scripts Affected	Empty Response	Removal
turkerview.com/api/	TVJS v9 (or below)	March 3rd, 2019	March 10th, 2019
api.turkerview.com	HIT Forker v1.0.6.1 (or below) MTurk Suite 2.4.6 (or below)	March 3rd,...

Deprecating Old API Endpoints

TurkerHub is now TurkerView (Forum)

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 04:20:35 +0000

I've moved the forum onto TV's subdomain & the login sessions are now linked.

Its still a little clunky in that the main application is going to move you directly to the log in/out pages here on the forum for the time being but once I track down all the kinks I'll flesh that out as well (didn't want to add a layer of complexity to an already intricate system).

If you notice...

TurkerHub is now TurkerView (Forum)

HIT Forker Update

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:39:58 +0000

tl;dr

HIT Forker has been updated to function with TurkerView's new View API [details here]
- If you already connected your API key w/ TVJS, you don't need to take any further action. Forker will read it automatically.
Everyone will need an API Key starting Feb 1 in order to use TV with HIT Forker.
- They can be...

HIT Forker Update

Preview: TurkerView's New "View API" Infrastructure

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 23:32:08 +0000

Hey folks
First thing first: this essentially will not affect you if...

You submit content to or participate in TV already (submitting reviews, return reviews, etc) or start doing so at any time (Learn how to get involved here)
You're a baby Turker (~ <1k HITs)
You only Turk casually (2-3hrs/day)
You use the website to access TV (these changes are strictly directed at the...

Preview: TurkerView's New "View API" Infrastructure

TurkerHub Is (Probably) Moving

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 01:46:33 +0000

I want to begin by saying this isn't a done deal yet (though I've been quietly floating the idea in the daily for weeks now lol), I'm putting this in announcements but its more of a pre-announcement discussion.

When TurkerView first started as a strapping young website everyone who knew what it was also knew what TH was.

Unfortunately (especially for researchers), that is no longer the case (we...

TurkerHub Is (Probably) Moving

Mod Panel, Staff, Moderating Reviews

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:47:26 +0000

Mod Panel
Its finally done & functions. Oh yeah baby, we've been fully wild wild west out there until now LOL. It has some cool features, right now it'll display:

Flagged reviews (duh) - which can be handled right in the mod panel. Either skip_calc'd (which means the review will still show up on the website, but its scores will not calculate for/against a Requester) or hidden (which means its been "soft deleted" more or less,...

Mod Panel, Staff, Moderating Reviews

TurkerView Update - Requester & User Profile Upgrades, Visual Revamp + Dark Theme

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 03:26:28 +0000

TurkerView Update

Just wanted to make a post detailing some of the changes to TurkerView's website & hopefully collect some feedback from you lovely people

The original skin has been revamped a bit to provide a little less eye strain with all that white. Fancy shadow boxes, less eyeball abusive background, all @NBadger approved no worries. I've...

TurkerView Update - Requester & User Profile Upgrades, Visual Revamp + Dark Theme

Bonus Tracking / Management

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:44:49 +0000

Bonus Manager
I added a small feature so you can quickly manage which Requesters have actually paid out expected bonuses on TurkerView. For now its just for personal use, maybe one day it'll get tossed into the aggregate data, but I was getting annoying trying to do it through HITDB so I wrote this really quick.

Access:

Example:

The layout/formatting isn't fantastic atm but I'll...

Bonus Tracking / Management

Imgur Data Breach & Account Security

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:28:01 +0000

Unless you messed up on another website - your TurkerHub data is perfectly safe!

Due to imgur recently losing all their user data I'm asking all members to take a moment to look into their account security both here and on mTurk.

Its very important to not re-use passwords across different websites. Members here and on reddit have had their accounts compromised recently because of a data breach relating to imgur. While this doesn't directly affect TurkerHub if you...

Imgur Data Breach & Account Security

HIT API Beta

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 22:16:46 +0000

HIT API Beta
This is only for worker.mturk.com! You must also be logged into TurkerView for it to work.

The idea is to give folks more digestible data from the website. Envisioned use cases:

Shared Requester Accounts - Some HITs might blow chunks, some might be great, this will help differentiate
Variety Requesters - Some Requesters (Rekogs come to mind) have a variety of HITs and each one has its own...

HIT API Beta

Custom User Icons

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 02:32:22 +0000

If you've donated $25 or more (cumulative) to the forum and you'd like a custom user icon/badge to show off your poorly spent wisely invested Turk dollars you can hit up the following two resources and post here / DM me to have it done.

Requirements:

An image or icon that can be properly scaled down to ~16x16px
- Pretty much anything from http://fa2png.io/icons/ will work
  - http://www.flaticon.com is an even better...

Custom User Icons

Introducing TurkerView.com - An mTurk Work Review Platform

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 18:20:50 +0000

First of all, a thank you note.
There are over 2 dozen people in the 'beta test' group for TurkerView. That means this was a community effort, and I can't thank all of them enough. But @NBadger & @GoldGuardian deserve an extra level of gratitude - I may open the Beta forum for public view one day just to show off the insane time and effort those two put into this project. I really can't...

Introducing TurkerView.com - An mTurk Work Review Platform

Registering for TurkerHub/TurkerView

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 20:56:52 +0000

Whoa! Why am I here?

First of all, Welcome!

You're here because TurkerView is owned & operated by TurkerHub. Most likely if you've heard of TurkerView right now, you're already a member here at the 'Hub but as time goes on I suspect that might not always be the case.

So if you are new and want to get registered for a TurkerView account, all you need to do is head here and sign up for TurkerHub. TurkerHub accounts are what you'll use to sign into TurkerView itself...

Registering for TurkerHub/TurkerView

Live Chat - Beta

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:23:29 +0000

Hey y'all,

Par for the course we keep getting bigger & bigger. A lot of y'all have grown real friendships with each other and we're hitting that maturity stage of the site (zomg closing in on 1 year shortly!) where some of those convos aren't meant for everyone to see haha. The conversation system built into XF is alright, but it also drags folks into another tab and/or off the daily thread (which is where I like keeping everyone herded up ) and ultimately isn't very robust and doesn't...

Live Chat - Beta

Suggestions Round 2

invalid@example.com (ChrisTurk) — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 08:27:46 +0000

I'm making a new thread because my to-do list is officially a mess so I'm clearing it and re-focusing on building a new one for the upcoming weeks. I've pushed out a lot of features/changes and probably scrapped twice as many since opening the site, so this seems like a good time to evaluate where the site is and what things should be a priority moving forward.

If you have requests/suggestions that have not been implemented yet please re-post them here because I've likely lost it in...

Suggestions Round 2