Second Life Daily News

• Stark depictions — Paramount pays for pics.
• 1.20(RC3) — Your weekly release candidate.
• Q2 viewer roadmap — The plan from the Shiny people.
• Suzanne Vega, The Queen and the Soldier — They walk into this bar, see, and the bartender says ...
• More than just gaming — What? Virtual worlds are good for other stuff?

• 9,924 new signups bringing the total to 13,368,410 signups. That's a second day of unusually low signups. Normally they're not this low unless the grid is not working at all for quite a chunk of the day.
• A peak concurrency of 60,560 at 1:55PM, and a minimum concurrency of 34,654 at 1:45AM. Median concurrency for the day was 47,494.

The Grid Stability Index for the day was 2.43 (lower is better). Actually quite a smooth day, all things considered. What drove the index today was a short spate of glitches in the mid evening that appeared to impact a few thousand users for a short time, apparently directly related to 1.21 updates.

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 1,191,473. Linden Lab last updated this figure on 23 Apr 2008 at 23:59.

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