Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 16,230 new signups bringing the total to 12,103,828 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 56,926 at 1:50PM, and a minimum concurrency of 1,791 at 3:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 43,716.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 8.68 (lower is better).
• Early in the morning a major failure in login-related systems and simulator connections impacted more than 15,000 users.
• The second episode of Inside Linden Lab focused on Joe Miller.
• SLCN.tv announced a virtual reality reality show. Umm. Right.
• Orange Island's Geekend starts Friday 25 January.
• Median hourly signup rates are rising, but it is too soon to call it a trend.

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 1,355,952. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 24 Jan 2008 at 23:59.