Yesterday in Second Life, Friday 21 December, 2007

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 16,376 new signups bringing the total to 11,539,876 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 51,770 at 2:25PM, and a minimum concurrency of 30,104 at 1:40AM. Median concurrency for the day was 40,987.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.48 (lower is better).
• Just prior to midnight, money and asset transfers began to silently fail or to timeout.
• Colgate-Palmolive launched a brand promotion today. There was nothing for us to actually look at, except the site, so we did that.
• Second Life residents attacked Linden Lab staffers. Well, sort of.
• We announced the winners of our Second Life launch contests.
• Two new viewer releases yesterday: A Windlight viewer that fixes avatars, but with a bit of a gotcha; and a new release-candidate viewer.
• Linden Lab started a podcast series of their own, called Inside Linden Lab.
• In answering volunteer questions about Havok 4.6 yesterday, Andrew Linden mentioned new policy and plans for megaprims.

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 1,413,796. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 21 Dec 2007 at 23:59.