Second Life Daily News
- 12,943 new signups bringing the total to 13,068,947 signups.
- A peak concurrency of 66,429 at 1:50PM (which is a new record!), and a minimum concurrency of 35,938 at 11:55PM. Median concurrency for the day was 49,102.
- The Grid Stability Index for the day was 1.58 (lower is better).
- Basically, as concurrency was still climbing, the grid more or less collapsed, cutting the peak short, and around 30,000 users or so logged off in frustration, crashed or were disconnected. The grid had already suffered from assorted transaction problems earlier in the day. Additionally telephone support had troubles of its own.
- Read about Liverpool Hope University's open day.
- Philip Rosedale will be testifying about virtual worlds before Congress on Tuesday.
- Global Kids doing science projects on the Teen grid.
- Nominative use can trump trademarks, but the Terms of Service seem to trump nominative use.
Below is the day's concurrency graphed for yesterday (left), and the corresponding day from the previous week (right)
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Recent users reported by Linden Lab (that is, users who have logged in at least once within the last 60 days) is 1,294,660. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 29 Mar 2008 at 23:59.
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