Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 13,038 new signups bringing the total to 12,731,386 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 58,471 at 2:05PM, and a minimum concurrency of 30,815 at 11:55PM. Median concurrency for the day was 44,199.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.37 (lower is better).
• Rolling restarts started in the evening and continued throughout the rest of the day, updating server software.
• The Support Portal will be being updated to improve navigation. A very welcome change.
• Linden Lab is looking for a large number of staff. Look for Linden staff in next week's Barcamp in Brighton.
• Lalinda Lovell is promoting a new non-Linden grid alternative, litesim.
• HTML on a prim made it's first-stage debut with the new release candidate, but doesn't work for everyone yet.
• Cel Edman temporarily stopped distributing his Sculptypaint tool due to copyright issues with his commercial texture packs which fund development and distribution.

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 1,347,499. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 5 Mar 2008 at 23:59.