Yesterday in Second Life, Tuesday 4 December, 2007

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 18,848 new signups bringing the total to 11,254,028 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 53,585 at 1:45PM, and a minimum concurrency of 29,585 at 1:20AM. Median concurrency for the day was 40,838.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 2.02 (lower is better).
• There was a major glitch at 11:55AM, dropping approximately 5,000 users at once. Linden Lab did not make any announcements or acknowledgement of the failure.
• A new Windlight viewer was released as 1.18.6(74965) and then replaced (with a forced downgrade) to 1.18.5(74965). There was talk about new authentication in a release candidate yesterday – but we don't know if that was it. If it was, we can only assume it failed.
• The Havok 4.6 beta was reopened.
• The JIRA and the Second Life wiki were taken down for a short maintenance period.
• Linden Lab is looking for testers with access to downtown San Francisco (including people who have never used Second Life before). This sort of thing is almost always done for user-interface and usability testing.
• The Second Winter Holiday Festival was announced, running from December 14 to January 8. For those of you for whom this is shaping up to be an unusually hot Summer season, this may be (ahem) cold comfort.

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 1,413,340. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 4 Dec 2007 at 23:59. (Updated right when we were expecting it)