Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 21,180 new signups bringing the total to 12,208,414 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 57,348 at 1:50PM, and a minimum concurrency of 31,714 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 44,192.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.39 (lower is better).
• Today's rolling restart started late and then was aborted abruptly when potential performance issues were discovered. The update was reverted back to the previous version.
• Full sim land auctions recommenced, though the Land Store itself went offline for a short time in the afternoon.
• The Friends Online service on the Second Life website had to be taken offline due to unspecified technical difficulties. There is no estimated time to restoration.
• The BBC ran its tantalizing documentary on synthetic adultery.

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 1,183,284. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 30 Jan 2008 at 23:59.