today-in-second-life
Latest
Today in Second Life, Tuesday 13 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 20,241 new signups bringing the total to 10,877,766 signups. A peak concurrency of 53,772 at 1:45PM, and a minimum concurrency of 29,802 at 1:35AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,640. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.61 (lower is better). The Lindex and land sales system gave a bit of a flutter today. Linden Lab clarified that they are only cracking down on sexual ageplay, not regular ageplay/child avatars and so forth. Moo looked at the state of the Teen Grid, through the eyes of its residents. Joshua Linden gave an extensive post-mortem on last week's software deployment and problems. Linden Lab neither confirmed nor denied that they opened an office in China, but hint that something is in the wind. A new release candidate (the first in the 1.18.5 series) was released with the first part of the new search interface, which revealed some interesting new web-services.
Today in Second Life, Monday 12 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 22,025 new signups bringing the total to 10,856,858 signups. A peak concurrency of 55,946 at 1:45PM, and a minimum concurrency of 28,463 at 2:10AM. Median concurrency for the day was 40,036. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.74 (lower is better). There was a short burst of problems with grid stability in the very early hours of the morning, which, though quite hampering did not affect large numbers of users. A bug relating to object pricing has recently come to light. Linden Lab say they are working on the matter most urgently. A new preview of the Dazzle project is available. Word on the street (alright - by reading Linden Lab announcements closely) is that we're expecting either a new Windlight release or a new Search release (or perhaps both) with the 1.18.5 release candidate sometime this week.
Today in Second Life, Sunday 11 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 20,965 new signups bringing the total to 10,834,730 signups. A peak concurrency of 57,672 at 1:40PM (a new record!), and a minimum concurrency of 31,453 at 11:50PM. Median concurrency for the day was 43,852. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.36 (lower is better). Word has come down that the person behind the Ginny Talamasca avatar has died.
Today in Second Life, Saturday 10 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 20,168 new signups bringing the total to 10,813,765 signups. Current median signup rates are 1,049 new signups per hour. Assuming they hold at that level, the eleven millionth signup is due in 7 days, 10 hours. A peak concurrency of 53,756 at 2:40PM, and a minimum concurrency of 28,048 at 6:35PM. Median concurrency for the day was 41,671. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 2.23 (lower is better). A fellow is selling an SL related guidebook (PDF) on eBay using images belonging to others without their permission. He claims to have express permission from Linden Lab, but others have claimed that before. We've asked Linden Lab, and expect a reply early next week. Early morning problems on the grid, followed by problems later on the grid.
Today in Second Life, Friday 9 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 14,894 new signups bringing the total to 10,793,597 signups. A peak concurrency of 50,566 at 2:35PM, and a minimum concurrency of 27,392 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 38,760. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 3.13 (lower is better). There was another rolling restart of the grid to fix problems introduced in yesterday's rolling restart. This ran from 4:15PM SLT (US Pacific) to 9:46PM SLT. NCI held their benefit auction and dance, which proved to be a great success.
Today in Second Life, Thursday 8 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 21,590 new signups bringing the total to 10,778,236 signups. A peak concurrency of 50,274 at 2:50PM, and a minimum concurrency of 27,663 at 11:50PM. Median concurrency for the day was 37,029. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 2.72 (lower is better). A wax-museumesque piece of surreality as famous historical figures are recreated as autonomous avatars in Second Life. Word has come in that Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary will be appearing in Second Life for a Q&A on Saturday. A machinima musical! Tuesday's rescheduled Wednesday's rescheduled rolling restart finally took place today. IBM and Linden Lab begin practical code collaboration on new subsystems, intended for many virtual worlds and MMOs. Coca Cola unveiled the winner of their Virtual Thirst competition. NCI is having a huge benefit/auction tomorrow evening, SL time. Don't forget!
Today in Second Life, Wednesday 7 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 22,623 new signups bringing the total to 10,756,646 signups. A peak concurrency of 53,223 at 1:55PM, and a minimum concurrency of 29,070 at 12:55AM. Median concurrency for the day was 40,124. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.32 (lower is better). More Massively Second Life giveaways! Yay! Today's rescheduled update was - well, rescheduled again. The World Society for the Protection of Animals is holding a fashion contest in Second Life. Steve Mahfouz of Ecstacy Realty is holding a competition for a year's free rent. If you're Japanese you might qualify. Second Life viewer 1.18.4 went final today and is available now. Rob Lanphier published some JIRA statistics and wants a volunteer who is willing to keep doing it. The Electric Sheep Company is looking to release portions of the OnRez viewer source code back to the community.
Today in Second Life, Tuesday 6 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 21,958 new signups bringing the total to 10,734,023 signups. A peak concurrency of 52,237 at 2:35PM, and a minimum concurrency of 26,129 at 1:10AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,402. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.94 (lower is better). Second Life started the new day with early morning network problems, and the transaction history irregularities of recent days became a full-scale outage of that reporting system not long after dawn. The preparation for today's upgrade went wrong, then very wrong. So wrong, that it looks like Linden Lab will be having another go at it tomorrow. Oh, and stipends didn't get paid out either. Word came down the wires about a massive purchase of a miniscule stake in Linden Lab. We're giving away Second Life books! Yeah! Linden Lab announced the phasing out of the last of the Class 3 servers. libsecondlife v0.3 has been released and is available now.
Today in Second Life, Monday 5 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 19,689 new signups bringing the total to 10,710,632 signups. A peak concurrency of 54,243 at 1:45PM, and a minimum concurrency of 28,930 at 1:10AM. Median concurrency for the day was 40,790. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.59 (lower is better). The third party voice system run by Vivox broke down for a period today. The Linden Lab governance team had the first of their public office hours, on the same day that it was announced that the public UI bug triage sessions would be discontinued. Daniel Terdiman interviewed Hyasynth Tiramisu, notable designer behind the Silentsparrow brand. Linden Lab announced that there would be a rolling restart tomorrow to update server software.
Today in Second Life, Sunday 4 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 23,409 new signups bringing the total to 10,690,259 signups. A peak concurrency of 56,967 at 1:50PM (a new record!), and a minimum concurrency of 29,876 at 11:50PM. Median concurrency for the day was 43,531. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.73 (lower is better). Some late transaction notification and inventory problems have been reported. Some users experienced login problems for a short period, just after peak today. Second Life user Jesse Barnett's open letter to Philip Linden. MTV's True Life is looking for people to participate for an upcoming program. SL Trip Tips helps people find cool places to visit in Second Life. Aimee Weber discusses platform versus nation.
Today in Second Life, Saturday 3 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 24,360 new signups bringing the total to 10,664,097 signups. A peak concurrency of 53,476 at 3:35PM, and a minimum concurrency of 29,677 at 1:20AM. Median concurrency for the day was 45,129. The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.16 (lower is better). Very smooth operating day today, although part of the Linden Lab data feeds (active users for the last 60 days) failed to update again today. It's definitely up on the last good sample, however. After an ... enthusiastic difference of opinion, the World Stock Exchange (WSE) and the Midas Group are accusing each other of incompetence, false-dealing, wrongdoing, maliciousness and so forth. Pick a player and choose at least one of the above. Suffice to say Midas and the WSE are slinging loads of exciting mud at each-other. The Second Life Community Convention (SLCC) announced their location for next year. Tampa, Florida is to be the site for SLCC08. A discussion on griefers in both Second Life and Real Life classes. One of the strangest press-releases I've received - surely these people must be joking.
Today in Second Life, Friday 2 November, 2007
Today in Second Life there was: 23,932 new signups bringing the total to 10,638,600 signups. A peak concurrency of 52,793 at 3:45PM, and a minimum concurrency of 25,544 at 1:30AM. Median concurrency for the day was 41,563. The Grid Stability Index (broken link due to a technical issue. See below) for the day was 2.23 (lower is better). The Second Life grid suffered from two large-scale failures today. First, part or all of the San Francisco colocation facility went dark, knocking 1,110 Second Life simulators offline. Taking place in the early hours of the morning, there was not as great an impact to users as the ISP services failure suffered through the afternoon. OnRez delivered an optional update to their custom Second Life viewer, though this was marred somewhat by a temporary site failure. Launches never go smoothly, and we've had a bit of a glitch with the Second Life Insider content that we link back to. You see, the RSS feed for SLI was supposed to be redirected over to the Second Life category here on Massively. In a bit of an eleventh hour cock-up, the whole side got redirected back here, breaking the content links we've got back to that site, and comments for posts there and so forth. The Massively team offers apologies. We're trying to get this fixed up as soon as possible - but it might not be able to be sorted until Monday. We're very sorry for the problem and will restore that site and its content as soon as possible. [UPDATE: 10:30AM ET - The issue with the broken redirect is sorted out, and older content is now viewable again]
