The entire land space of OpenSim’s public grids jumped by greater than 33,000 area equivalents this month, with the addition of a giant new grid to our record. Nonetheless, the full variety of energetic customers was down by almost 1,500, attributable to a number of grids not reporting stats this month. Lacking grids included Fire and Ice, The City, and Little Big City.
The massive new grid was Simation Grid, with a reported 25,408 area equivalents. OpenSim’s structure makes it simple for grid homeowners to launch with loads of house. Or it could possibly be a stats mistake — the grid’s web site says “Customary Area Equivalents: 25408 Km2” — and whether it is truly giving the realm in sq. kilometers, than it has 387,693 whole areas, which might make it bigger than all the opposite OpenSim grids put collectively. I couldn’t discover any contact info on the grid’s web site, and among the pages appear to be placeholders, so if you happen to’re the proprietor of Simation Grid and are studying this, and if I acquired your numbers improper — please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com and I’ll replace this text!
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,675 public grids, of which 318 are energetic and 258 printed their statistics this month. When you’ve got a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that means, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 33,554 normal area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most energetic, with 6,540 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embrace many of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are typically personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits folks with no technical expertise to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers free of charge utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory 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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Prime 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. Individuals seeking to make new associates 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 clients. Occasion organizers searching for the most important viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,540 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 5,168 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,333 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,163 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,967 energetic customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,838 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,718 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,521 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,108 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,028 energetic customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 987 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 962 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 935 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 840 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 837 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 825 energetic customers
- Astralia: 771 energetic customers
- Craft World: 744 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 582 energetic customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 545 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 537 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 524 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 522 energetic customers
- Kitely: 462 energetic customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 438 energetic customers
The largest change on this record 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 at present 20,965 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,073 product variations, 35,835 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 628 OpenSim grids thus far.
As you possibly can see within the above chart, almost 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 purple space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The instructions for how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are here.
Kitely has not too long ago upgraded its version of OpenSim to permit for sooner start-up occasions and higher compatibility with scripts imported from Second Life.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Agartha, AmaziWorld, Casperia Prime, Gridworld, HG Safari Grid, Nosso Lar, Sciattisi Grid, Simation Grid, Steg, and Tenth Dimension.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 9 grids have been marked suspended this month: Eenhgrid, Hermopolis Chimera, Kantarobasta Grid, Kindred Spirits World, Pseudospace, Rocket World, Royal Grid, Starfleet, and Tropicana Grid.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future studies.
Typically, a grid adjustments its login URI or web site tackle — if that’s the case, electronic mail me and let me know and I’ll replace my database.
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this record are, every time obtainable, by way of normal area equivalents. Lively person counts embrace hypergrid guests every time doable.
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 reputation. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 33,554 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,276 areas
- Simation Grid: 25,408 areas
- Kitely: 18,108 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,932 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,437 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,201 areas
- Discovery Grid: 4,945 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,527 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,260 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,040 areas
- GBG World: 957 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- ArtDestiny: 900 areas
- AviWorlds: 841 areas
- Craft World: 673 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 594 areas
- Littlefield: 513 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 348 areas
- DreamNation: 308 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Insight Concepts: 240 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 218 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 188 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- Kater and Friends: 185 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 183 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- XTalent: 133 areas
- GerGrid: 132 areas
Are you aware of some other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
