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Doeko Cassidy
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Join date: 31 Jan 2004
Posts: 96
08-17-2006 02:32
Nobody noticed this yet?

Looks like someone's going to lose a bet...

edit: Apparantly active means logged in, in the last 60 days.
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windozer Vargas
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Join date: 6 Feb 2006
Posts: 99
08-17-2006 02:35
From: Doeko Cassidy
Nobody noticed this yet?

Looks like someone's going to lose a bet...

edit: Apparantly active means logged in, in the last 60 days.


it means that in half million only 236,562
means that the open registration only brought griefers and kids-not anyone really valuable
Luciftias Neurocam
Ecosystem Design
Join date: 13 Oct 2005
Posts: 742
08-17-2006 06:32
From: windozer Vargas
it means that in half million only 236,562
means that the open registration only brought griefers and kids-not anyone really valuable



how valuable are you?
Coyote Momiji
Pintsized Plutonium
Join date: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 715
08-17-2006 06:42
From: windozer Vargas
it means that in half million only 236,562
means that the open registration only brought griefers and kids-not anyone really valuable



....

:(
Raudf Fox
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Join date: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 5,119
08-17-2006 06:48
From: Luciftias Neurocam
how valuable are you?


Obviously, not very. We're just numbers now.

New SL greetings: "Pleased to meet you, I'm number 51,106. What number are you?"

See, a good portion of that large number were alts cranked out by griefers when their accounts got banned. Griefers make fine padding for the numbers, don't you think?

The rest were honest players. I welcome the real newbies and honest players with open arms!
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Luciftias Neurocam
Ecosystem Design
Join date: 13 Oct 2005
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08-17-2006 06:55
From: Raudf Fox
Obviously, not very. We're just numbers now.



I am not a number, I'm a free man.


and, in any event, we're laboring under some misperception here that this divergence between active users and total users only began with the free accounts.

Given previous statements by LL, I'd say this wasn't the case. In fact, IIRC, I seem to remember a statistic from before the Great Kerfuffle that approx. 60% of accounts shown on the main page were considered active. Now it looks like 50%. A change, but perhaps not a huge one by most standards.
Ceera Murakami
Texture Artist / Builder
Join date: 9 Sep 2005
Posts: 7,750
08-17-2006 07:35
Take a look at my replies in the "What is that number anyway?" Blog entry on this statistic change and it's meaning. I point out several things that have artificially inflated that number, both before and after the open registration mess.
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Ranma Tardis
沖縄弛緩の明確で青い水
Join date: 8 Nov 2005
Posts: 1,415
08-17-2006 07:58
I dont think the number is 100k. When you take out alts, children, griefers and those passing through the number is rather small.

Maybe Phillip will not be able to sell so quickly after all........
Ricky Zamboni
Private citizen
Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,080
08-17-2006 11:39
From: Ceera Murakami
Take a look at my replies in the "What is that number anyway?" Blog entry on this statistic change and it's meaning. I point out several things that have artificially inflated that number, both before and after the open registration mess.

I think your idea of reporting "successful logins from individual hardware hashes over the past N days" is an extremely good one. Much more than "accounts ever registered" or "60 day logins", *that* would give an accurate indication of the number of people truly using SL.
Lost Newcomb
Registered User
Join date: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 666
08-17-2006 11:42
Forget the number resis the number is only for invesis, resis don't need to think much of it. Philip wants "Total Residents" to 1 mil by end of year. :D

From: someone

Total Residents: 524,234
Logged In Last 60 Days: 238,874


That's the stats right now.
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Ricky Zamboni
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Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 1,080
08-17-2006 14:11
From: Lost Newcomb
Forget the number resis the number is only for invesis, resis don't need to think much of it. Philip wants "Total Residents" to 1 mil by end of year. :D

One thing I find interesting is that from the end of January until early August, the "front page hybrid number" tripled (128,968 to 382,182), while the peak concurrency only increased by about 60% (5351 to 8713). Make of that what you will.

Once a few weeks of full-population reporting has gone by, I'll be able to dig a little more thoroughly into the statistics. Of course, by then the forums will be gone, so I'll have to keep those stats to myself or find my own soapbox to preach from.... :p
Clubside Granville
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Join date: 13 Apr 2006
Posts: 478
08-17-2006 14:17
I'd love to get mean and median concurrency Ricky, they were what I was researching along with the average, highs and lows for my user retention articles.

Please feel free to cntinue your posts over on my Second Life Home Page Forums, which are an exact duplicate of this layout. I even brought up that issue of breaking the "Land and the Economy" Forum into specialized areas which was discussed a few months back!

http://forums.slhomepage.com
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Lost Newcomb
Registered User
Join date: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 666
08-17-2006 14:19
From: Clubside Granville
I'd love to get mean and median concurrency Ricky, they were what I was researching along with the average, highs and lows for my user retention articles.

Please feel free to cntinue your posts over on my Second Life Home Page Forums, which are an exact duplicate of this layout. I even brought up that issue of breaking the "Land and the Economy" Forum into specialized areas which was discussed a few months back!

http://forums.slhomepage.com


Hey Clubside,

If you have the resources, maybe you should ask Torley or someone if they can give a backup of the content creation forums. No user-data ofcourse, but just the posts within. This way you could host them over there.

This could be called "Archive" and contain everything that happend till they closed the forums.
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Raudf Fox
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Join date: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 5,119
08-17-2006 14:39
From: Luciftias Neurocam
and, in any event, we're laboring under some misperception here that this divergence between active users and total users only began with the free accounts.


Do I think that the free accounts have something to do with that? No, I think the open registration had something to do with that. We had free accounts before we had open registration and while the divergence was a little larger, it was pretty steady. The divergence itself also isn't the problem, it's a natural progression of a game/platform/who cares. The problem here is that the divergence has grown, but the concurrent can't keep up. And there are a lot of reasons for that, including the dying asset system.
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