Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 13,849 new signups bringing the total to 12,427,514 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 56,873 at 1:20PM, and a minimum concurrency of 30,988 at 1:25AM. Median concurrency for the day was 43,129.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.47 (lower is better).
• The grid was more stable than the previous day (fewer reports of bulk inventory loss, for example), but the pattern of instabilities were pretty much identical. That seems to indicate deterministic code or systems faults.
• Maria Liberati, supermodel turned celebrity-chef made an appearance inworld to promote her book.
• Linden Lab took a position against one class of mainland ad-farms.
• A new release candidate – 1.19.0(RC2) – was released.
• To quell rumors circulating about the existence of Class 6 servers, Linden Lab came right out and said that no such class of servers exists.

Below is the day's concurrency graphed for yesterday (left), and the corresponding day from the previous week (right)

Recent users reported by Linden Lab (that is, users who have logged in at least once within the last 60 days) is 1,359,630. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 11 Feb 2008 at 23:59.