The overall land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 138,831 commonplace areas this month, an all-time excessive — and the fourth month in a row that OpenSim land space has damaged this report. That’s a rise of greater than 5,000 areas since final month.
The most important gainer by way of land space was OSgrid, which gained 2,655 new areas, taking the highest slot again from Wolf Territories Grid.
On the identical time, the variety of energetic customers hit 47,620, one other report, and a rise of greater than 2,000 actives in comparison with the earlier month. Right here, Wolf Territories maintained its management place after gaining 307 new energetic customers.
In the meantime, the entire variety of domestically registered customers in OpenSim went up by greater than 2,000, led by AvatarLife with 521 new registrations.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,657 public grids, of which 313 have been energetic, and 247 printed their statistics this month. If in case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that approach, your grid can be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each serps and customers.
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Nordlicht Grid and Royal Grid.
Additionally, I’m now not sending out a month-to-month e mail blast reminding OpenSim grid homeowners to ship me information and updates for this report. If in case you have information, please e mail me earlier than the tenth of the month if you would like a brief merchandise included on this month-to-month wrap-up. For longer information, be happy to ship me press releases at any time.
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Our stats don’t embrace most of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically personal grids.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits individuals with no technical abilities to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities 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 every other distribution, whereas business 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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Prime 25 grids by energetic customers
In relation to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new buddies search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,578 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 5,250 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,168 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,112 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,996 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,680 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,384 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 1,202 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 1,133 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,088 energetic customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,062 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,011 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 996 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 987 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 861 energetic customers
- Craft World: 780 energetic customers
- Astralia: 703 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 654 energetic customers
- Virtualife: 636 energetic customers
- Kitely: 612 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 600 energetic customers
- Resurgence: 590 energetic customers
- Friends Grid: 583 energetic customers
- German World Grid: 567 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 547 energetic customers
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, every time obtainable, by way of commonplace area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace 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 reputation. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You’ll be able to see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 29,800 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,544 areas
- Kitely: 18,151 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 11,748 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,208 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,121 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,178 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,572 areas
- German World Grid: 2,476 areas
- CandM World: 1,595 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 953 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 872 areas
- AviWorlds: 859 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 589 areas
- Littlefield: 516 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Tomi’s World: 400 areas
- Craft World: 390 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- DreamNation: 318 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Neverworld: 291 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Kater and Friends: 187 areas
- Counter Earth: 187 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 184 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 172 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 149 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- Outworldz: 127 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
Have you learnt of every other 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.