Yesterday in Second Life, Wednesday 14 November, 2007

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 17,845 new signups bringing the total to 10,895,611 signups.
• Median signup rates were just under 1,000 per hour. The 11 millionth signup is due at approximately 1:30pm, Monday 19 November at current rates.
• A peak concurrency of 52,600 at 1:55PM, and a minimum concurrency of 8,017 at 4:55AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,563.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 5.13 (lower is better).
• In the early hours of the morning, a major network failure (possibly hardware related) killed logins to the Second Life grid, and dropped most user connections. Obviously the witching hour for hardware.
• It was announced that the grid will be undergoing maintenance on short-notice. Quite probably related to the network failure. That starts in just a few hours.
• As expected, the Windlight renderer was re-released today in a fresh First Look viewer. It might totally destroy any frame rates you might have had, but damn it is pretty!

Yes, a bit of a name and timeslot change for the daily wrap. Don't be alarmed. It all works out better this way.