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Today in Second Life - Sunday 28 January, 2007.

Posted Jan 29th 2007 3:01AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Odds and Ends

The end of one day and the beginning of anotherToday in Second Life we had:
All in all, quite the interesting day. Considering Friday's extremely low and yesterday's relatively average rate of signups, we're moved to wonder why the figures surged so strongly today.
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Second Life signups pass three million

Posted Jan 28th 2007 10:15PM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: News, Accounts, Linden Lab

Three million, plus changeFrom 8AM SLT today to 11AM, Linden Lab's published population statistics were offline due to periodic database load issues, however. The last reported figure for total signups at 7AM was 2,978,748. When the data feed returned at 11AM, the new figure being reported was 3,018,934, well into 3 million. This beats my flat-growth prediction by about a week and a half.

It is to be noted, that this reflects signups, not paying subscribers (approximately 55 thousand on the 24th of January [Thanks, Zee Linden]), and Second Life's retention rate at last report was 10 percent at 90 days. Indeed, many people sign up for a Second Life account and do not log in within 60 days (back of the envelope calculations based on Linden Lab's published statistical data say around 8,500 per day sign up but don't log in).

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Today in Second Life - Tuesday 16 January, 2007.

Posted Jan 17th 2007 3:01AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Odds and Ends

The end of one day and the beginning of anotherToday in Second Life we had:
  • 22,985 new signups bringing us to 2,673,800 signups total.
  • A peak concurrency of 24,942 at 1:34PM, and a minimum concurrency of 11,935 at 2:31AM. Average concurrency for the day was 18,219.
  • The 1.13.2 release got the final go-ahead for deployment tomorrow morning.
  • Lindex check payments were put on hold until next week.
  • Linden Lab's support telephone lines broke down for about a half hour.
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Today in Second Life - Monday 15 January, 2007.

Posted Jan 16th 2007 3:01AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Odds and Ends

The end of one day and the beginning of anotherToday in Second Life we had:
  • 45,765 new signups bringing us to 2,650,815 signups total.
  • A peak concurrency of 27,220 at 1:41PM, and a minimum concurrency of 12,833 at 2:55AM. Average concurrency for the day was 19,394.
  • A new record for concurrent logins, with only comparatively minor grid troubles between 11:00AM and 11:30AM - well, that's how it was reported. Residents tell us that the troubles continued for at least another couple of hours after that point, but were not extremely severe.
  • It was Martin Luther King Jr Day in SL today, with the sun rigged to help commemorate the event.
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Today in Second Life - Sunday 14 January, 2007.

Posted Jan 15th 2007 3:01AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Odds and Ends

The end of one day and the beginning of anotherToday in Second Life we had:
  • 40,108 new signups bringing us to 2,605,050 signups total.
  • A peak concurrency of 26,196 at 12:56PM, and a minimum concurrency of 13,426 at 2:10AM. Average concurrency for the day was 19,485.
  • The massive rush of new signups and record concurrency brought us a slew of grid troubles, much of which is only just beginning to settle.
  • Deadly wig prims invaded Dream City. No sign of a resolution there.
  • JEVN users worry that SL isn't pulling the weight it's supposed to ... and costing them some sales as a result of failure to deliver. We're told that JEVN clients aren't synchronising in some sims, and deliveries are not taking place.
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Today in Second Life - Saturday 13 January, 2007.

Posted Jan 14th 2007 3:01AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Odds and Ends

The end of one day and the beginning of anotherToday in Second Life we had:
  • 22,213 new signups bringing us to 2,564,942 signups total.
  • A peak concurrency of 23,718 at 2:44PM, and a minimum concurrency of 12,920 at 3:04AM. Average concurrency for the day was 18,673.
  • Approximately an hour of grid troubles, with failed teleports, failed rezzing, object and money transfer problems, and some loss of objects. Reports are that while the most severe problems were for the first hour, that incidences of these issues are still relatively widespread by midnight.
  • A rash of attacks by the 7chan groups on a variety of liberal, alternative-lifestyle and new-resident locations and sims.
  • Philip Rosedale wins a Cullinane and Green EDGIE award for being on the bleeding edge.
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Today in Second Life - Friday 12 January, 2007.

Posted Jan 13th 2007 3:01AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Odds and Ends

The end of one day and the beginning of anotherToday in Second Life we had:
  • 25,044 new signups bringing us to 2,542,729 signups total.
  • A peak concurrency of 23,132 at 2:42PM, and a minimum concurrency of 11,265 at 2:43AM. Average concurrency for the day was 17,562.
  • The Second Life Land Management forum closed. The majority of thread comments seem to be from people who have never been able to elicit a response from the support email address. Only one poster reports ever receiving a response from the support address.
  • A new First Look viewer was released with major rendering pipeline changes. It's got its quirks and issues, but the buzz about it is generally positive.
  • A new version of the Second Life viewer source code was put out today, including the first resident contribution, by Kage Pixel. The patch does not alter viewer functionality, but makes the code a bit easier to build. Further build fixes are in the pipeline. Several other Linden Lab provided updates are in this release.
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Today in Second Life - Thursday 11 January, 2007.

Posted Jan 12th 2007 3:01AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Odds and Ends

The end of one day and the beginning of anotherToday in Second Life we had:
  • 18,138 new signups bringing us to 2,517,886 signups total.
  • A peak concurrency of 22,671 at 2:00PM, and a minimum concurrency of 10,783 at 3:22AM. Average concurrency for the day was 16,685.
  • Search was changed yesterday, but Linden Lab noticed today that multi-word searches were not functioning as expected, as criticism mounted on the Linden Blog. A fix is promised in a future update.
  • The comments on the transcript to Cory Linden's Town Hall mostly devolved into my-opinion-is-more-valid-than-yours, and accusations of terrorism.
  • Resident developers have managed to get the Second Life viewer running for x86 64-bit processors under Linux, albeit without a couple of features like sound.
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Today in Second Life - Wednesday 10 January, 2007.

Posted Jan 11th 2007 3:01AM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Odds and Ends

The end of one day and the beginning of anotherToday in Second Life we had:
  • An aborted grid update, although physical maintenance and some simulator-side changes were rolled out during the maintenance problems.
  • 18,581 new signups bringing us to 2,498,174 signups total.
  • A peak concurrency of 22,306, and a minimum concurrency of zero (due to the scheduled maintenance). Average concurrency for the day was 13,002.
  • A mess of grid troubles between 19:00 SLT and 19:40 SLT, causing slow/failed teleports, slow or frozen logins, and crossing sim borders crashing the viewer. Users reported significant delays or failures with object rezzing.
  • Search was changed from using substrings to using whole words only. Result ordering has also changed. While this is supposed to reduce database load for queries, it's bound to upset some people.
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Last 60 days - something very wrong

Posted Dec 8th 2006 10:00PM by Tateru Nino
Filed under: Linden Lab

Something clearly wrong There's a number that Linden Lab publishes on the Second Life homepage and login screen and in an XML data source. It's called 'Logged in Last 60 Days'. In theory this number is the number of distinct accounts that logged in to Second Life within the last 60 days. If you believe that it means what Linden Lab seems to believe it to mean, anyway.

The problem is, there's something seriously wrong with this number. Observe the chart on the right. Click on it to get a larger version for clarity.

That's what you get if you graph that last-60-days number less the number of people who signed up in the same period. There's some obviously perplexing and disturbing things about it.

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