Yesterday in Second Life: Second Life Daily News

Yesterday in Second Life there was:

• 13,549 new signups bringing the total to 12,744,935 signups.
• A peak concurrency of 58,725 at 2:30PM, and a minimum concurrency of 29,453 at 12:15AM. Median concurrency for the day was 47,382.
• The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.36 (lower is better).
• Thursday's server software update, which continued in the early hours of yesterday, introduced a cosmetic glitch that led some people to be concerned that their abuse reports were not being received.
• Linden Lab announced a series of immediate changes for void sims (also called Openspace sims).
• Professor Juan Cole weighed in on the monitoring and profiling of MMO users by government agencies, pointing out that it is essentially impractical (which we already knew), and that it is unconstitutional (which we strongly suspected).
• The Havok Early Adopters were updated with the first release candidate of the new physics system build. There was also a beta refresh in the early hours of the morning, on the beta grid.
• Linden Lab found an issue with parcel joins that was, basically, screwing up search rankings in many cases. A solution for this has been implemented for future parcel joins.
• Sarah Robbins (known in SL as Intellagirl Tully) has been appointed editor of the newly formed SLED (Second Life Education) blog.

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.