Yesterday in Second Life, Wednesday 21 November, 2007

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 22,271 new signups bringing the total to 11,025,617 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 41,903 at 10:30AM, and a minimum concurrency of 28,998 at 11:50PM. Median concurrency for the day was 35,425.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 2.12 (lower is better).
• More network problems took place between 7:30AM and 8:30AM this morning, followed by a slew of login and inventory problems around peak time and throughout the afternoon.
• The Support portal – the primary contact avenue for support tickets and information began throwing spurious error messages at users at about 10PM.
• Linden lab announced a server-side software update next week – introducing support for a new login system that has drawn considerable technical criticism.
• A new Windlight viewer was released, for those of you who just adore the eye-candy.
• Philip Linden took some time to post about Linden Lab's revised mission statement.

Below is the day's concurrency graphed for yesterday (left), and the corresponding day from the previous week (right)

Active users reported by Linden Lab (that is, users who have logged in for more than 60 minutes in the last 60 days) is 1,482,536. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 19 Nov 2007 at 23:59.