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6,000th Daily Feature

16 May 2025 05:30 AM
Today's IEM Daily Feature marks the arbitrarily large and round number of 6,000th published in the series. The first feature was published back on 4 Feb 2002 as a lame one sentence statement on how cold it was. The intention was to highlight something of current and relevant interest to users of the website and help motivate the development of such plots and tooling to help generate daily feature content. During 2004, informal and easily manipulated voting was added as an option to provide the IEM feedback on if the posted feature content was of interest to the website user. The meta featured chart today shows the yearly voting percentages. The outlier years of 2014 through 2016 were due to unfortunate bugs with the technical implementation of voting and some routine manipulation, but anyway. The belief is that these features are still found useful by the community and a cathartic expression by the website's developer, so here's to the next 6,000 posted featured to come!

Voting:
Good: 39
Bad: 4
Abstain: 3

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