OpenSim energetic customers are up by 1,039 this month, reaching a brand new all-time excessive of 48,234. The whole land space additionally elevated, by 489 normal area equivalents.
Nonetheless, the full variety of registered customers on all the general public OpenSim grids fell by greater than 10,000 since Could. The largest cause for the drop? 3rd Rock Grid is now officially closed, with a few of its communities moved to ZetaWorlds. Final month, third Rock Grid reported 13,615 registered customers, although it had solely 250 actives. third Rock was one of many oldest OpenSim grounds, based again in 2008, and accrued plenty of consumer registrations over the previous decade and a half.
A number of different grids didn’t report their stats this month, together with CandM World, which was energetic this month however confirmed no stats on its stats web page. The grid had over 500 actives in Could.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,663 public grids, of which 309 are energetic and 253 revealed their statistics this month. If in case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that method, your grid will probably be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the most important grid by land space, with 32,547 normal area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most energetic, with 6,232 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are typically non-public grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits folks with no technical abilities to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities can run OpenSim worlds on their servers totally free utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
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Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will probably be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks seeking to make new mates search for grids that have already got probably the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the most important viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,232 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 5,186 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,239 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,156 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,025 energetic customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,750 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,694 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,650 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,101 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,068 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,023 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 936 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 930 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 899 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 839 energetic customers
- Astralia: 836 energetic customers
- Craft World: 791 energetic customers
- Virtualife: 666 energetic customers
- Virtualife: 664 energetic customers
- Kitely: 627 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 596 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 583 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 514 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 511 energetic customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 507 energetic customers
The largest change on this checklist was the addition of Virtual Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a powerful launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are presently 20,793 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,862 product variations, 35,648 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 624 OpenSim grids up to now.
As you may see within the above chart, practically all the expansion in Kitely Market has been in content material that may be exported to different grids — that’s the inexperienced space on the graph. The pink space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The instructions for how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are here.
Kitely has lately doubled the performance of its regions while keeping prices the same.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Lady’s Dreamworld and Virtual Vista Metaverse.
If you realize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 18 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Admeja, Bernicia, BigOne, Bubble Grid, EducaSim, Eleutherias, Golden Palace Gaming, KittyBlue, Mystic Bermuda, Pleasant Retreat, Resurgence, Royal Grid, Starfleet, The Crying Grid, Tropicana Grid, Twilight, Uzuri Virtual, and VR Playground.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future experiences.
Typically, a grid adjustments its login URI or web site handle — if that’s the case, electronic mail me and let me know and I’ll replace my database.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this checklist are, every time accessible, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time potential.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The raw data for this month’s report is here. A list of all active grids is here. And here’s a list of all the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 32,547 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,248 areas
- Kitely: 18,077 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,910 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,178 areas
- Groovy Verse: 7,837 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,544 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,253 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 956 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- AviWorlds: 842 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- Craft World: 642 areas
- AvatarLife: 603 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 343 areas
- DreamNation: 314 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 186 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 182 areas
- Kater and Friends: 180 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 168 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- Logicamp: 129 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
- Outworldz: 126 areas
- XTalent: 124 areas
- Utopia Skye: 116 areas
Are you aware of another grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
