Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 12,460 new signups bringing the total to 12,292,447 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 57,528 at 1:50PM, and a minimum concurrency of 31,865 at 1:10AM. Median concurrency for the day was 44,296.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.49 (lower is better).
• Apparent load-balancer issues screwed up logins for several short periods during the day.
• Linden Lab announced that there would likely be a rolling restart this coming Wednesday or Thursday to fix bugs introduced in the last rolling restart.
• Short notice voice server downtime was announced. Rolling updates to the voice servers (it is not clear if they are under Linden Lab's control or at a separate facility) will disrupt voice operations between 2AM and 4AM Tuesday (today).
• A content loss problem on simulators was tracked back to network hardware problems at a third-party ISP (likely Level 3).
• The beta grid has a new version of Mono running with a number of key bugfixes.
• The release candidate viewer 1.19.0(RC0) was released a second time – intentionally this time.
• Content creators dealing with content theft are following in the tracks of industries that have come before them, albeit at an accelerated pace.

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 1,365,053. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 4 Feb 2008 at 23:59. Updated at last, but a barely perceptible rise.