Yesterday in Second Life, Tuesday 27 November, 2007

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 16,759 new signups bringing the total to 11,130,045 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 54,152 at 1:50PM, and a minimum concurrency of 29,127 at 1:50AM. Median concurrency for the day was 40,648.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 3.49 (lower is better).
• Rough day for the grid – between what seem to be random failures coupled with deliberate changes behind the scenes through the day.
• Some of the hacked banks are back in business.
• Rase Kenzo is determined to fight the copyright infringement case, rather than settle – though his chances don't look good.
• Gartner says virtual worlds are leading the drive to electronic currencies – of course almost all currencies are largely electronic these days.

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 1,495,561. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 26 Nov 2007 at 23:59.