Omega Point

A blog by Catherine Winters

11 Aug

Sally Linden on the “Residents” statistic


On the Lin­den Blog today, Sally Lin­den writes:

There has lately been much con­fu­sion and spec­u­la­tion sur­round­ing the “Res­i­dents” sta­tis­tic on the home page of http://secondlife.com. This post is an effort to clear that up.

She goes on to say:

…there was an inter­nal con­ver­sa­tion about the num­ber we were report­ing, what the Res­i­dents thought it rep­re­sented, and how we could be more trans­par­ent. The num­ber that is cur­rently on our home page is a time-weighted aver­age between “total num­ber of signups ever” and “total num­ber of logged in users over the last 60 days”. As of right now, those num­bers are 493,563 and 225,028.

And most usefully:

We plan to change the home page to dis­play those two num­bers sep­a­rately. At that time the cur­rent “Res­i­dents” num­ber will be removed. This change should take place some­time next week.

I’d really be inter­ested in see­ing the total num­ber of suc­cess­ful unique logins in the pre­vi­ous 24 hours as well. We’ll see what the response is.


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7 Responses to “Sally Linden on the “Residents” statistic”

  1. By chromal brodsky on Aug 11, 2006 | Reply

    Aaah, great! I can’t wait to have access to the hard num­bers, hope­fully next week!

  2. By Torley Linden on Aug 11, 2006 | Reply

    I’d like to see a Royk­sopp “Remind Me” ver­sion of *this*!

  3. By Catherine Omega on Aug 11, 2006 | Reply

    Best. Music. Video. Ever.
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=lBvaHZIrt0o

  4. By Siobhan Taylor on Aug 11, 2006 | Reply

    Max con­cur­rent logins would e nice too… Let’s see what peak usage is, maybe graphed over time.

  5. By Baba on Aug 11, 2006 | Reply

    This has been another stir­ring edi­tion of the OMEGA POINT

  6. By Catherine Omega on Aug 11, 2006 | Reply

    Well, we already know max con­cur­rent logins; it just requires data mining.

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