Did over 30,000 sign up “yesterday”?
I was reading Tateru Nino, over on Second Life Insider, and although I am not certain where she get her figures… I have a lot of faith in Tateru’s reports. According to her report, yesterday we had 38,139 new sign-up for Second Life. Bring the total number of people who have registered for Second Life accounts to 3,276,953.
Thank goodness such a large percentage of registered accounts never stick around long enough to appreciate Second Life. There were 30,281 people online at one time yesterday and I don’t know about you, but textures were loading slow as all heck for me. I was having a hard time trying to move across a room, but teleporting was no problem. Can you just imagine what it would be like with 500,000 online at the same time?
Don’t think I am bashing Linden Lab, I think the Lindens are doing an amazing job trying to move Second Life forward, but lately I have been longing for the days when there were only 1,000 online at once.
Scaling Second Life to the influx of new residents has to be an extremely difficult job, and I do not envy the task the Lindens take on each and every day. I do wonder just how long they can keep Second Life functioning at the pace the growth is expanding. Although, I have been bitching and moaning with each new update they have done for the last year; they have managed not to totally crash the system.
I am fairly certain they were seeing themselves having trouble keeping up, and that is the reason (IMHO) they open sourced the viewer. I have no idea how soon they will benefit from that action, but the faster they open source the server code the sooner some of the great minds can assist in making Second Life better functional. Linden Labs, don’t wait to long to seek the additional help. We want a better Second Life!
February 4th, 2007 • 
Weirdharold • 
comment | February 4, 2007 at 08:58 | individual comment-link
I don’t know… for a place so populated it seems that the population density is about the same. It could be argued either way, I suppose. Spreading the load and moving away from a geocentric aggregation seems to be the best answer for SL… open sourcing the servers is probably the next step in doing that.
Yes. We do want a better SecondLife.
comment | February 5, 2007 at 03:10 | individual comment-link
Near as I can tell at least an eighth of people who sign up do not even log in. Not within 60 days at least, if ever.
Of course, I signed up a Ryzom trial account and never used it.
pingback | February 10, 2007 at 17:50 | individual pingback-link
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