Yesterday in Second Life, Wednesday 5 December, 2007

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 18,283 new signups bringing the total to 11,272,727 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 52,990 at 1:40PM, and a minimum concurrency of 28,428 at 12:20AM. Median concurrency for the day was 40,495.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 2.46 (lower is better).
• Akela looked at some strangeness in NBC's reporting.
• The new 1.18.6(0) release-candidate viewer came out with some expected and unexpected additions.
• Age verification has gone into beta. So far, we know of only three people outside the USA who have managed to make it work – one with correct information and two with incorrect information.
• A major services outage caused problems for users for over half an hour in the early evening.
• We learned that the Linden Lab V-team has their own blog.
• SLOz expanded to cover more worlds – now called the Metaverse Journal.

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. It's not surprising that this figure didn't update properly today.