The overall land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 131,511 commonplace areas this month, an all-time excessive, on a rise of greater than 1,000 commonplace areas in comparison with final month. Nonetheless, the overall variety of lively customers went down by over 3,500.
A part of the lower was as a consequence of the truth that the OpenSim Neighborhood Convention was final month, driving up these numbers. Just a few grids additionally did not report stats this month, or had outages, or closed, however nothing main — for probably the most half, the lower was as a consequence of decrease numbers throughout the board, presumably because of the winter holidays.
Scaling again for 2024
You would possibly discover that this text is considerably shorter than earlier’ months. I’m scaling again my OpenSim protection this yr to make extra time for different initiatives. You probably have a press launch, you possibly can ship it to me, however the nearer it’s to publishable format, the faster I’ll have the ability to put up it on the positioning.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,653 public grids, of which 334 are lively and 258 revealed their statistics this month. You probably have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that manner, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
Our stats don’t embrace most of the grids operating 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 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 many who are extra technically inclined, or another 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.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now accessible
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely 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 lively customers
In the case of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks 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 on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- OSgrid: 5,155 lively customers
- Wolf Territories Grid: 4,715 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,196 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,081 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,837 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,354 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,342 lively customers
- Moonrose: 1,138 lively customers
- Littlefield: 1,036 lively customers
- Trianon World: 917 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 897 lively customers
- Neverworld: 887 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 804 lively customers
- Craft World: 685 lively customers
- Eureka World: 683 lively customers
- Astralia: 657 lively customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 621 lively customers
- Kitely: 611 lively customers
- German World Grid: 605 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 577 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 571 lively customers
- Vivo Sim: 547 lively customers
- Vida Dupla: 534 lively customers
- ProxyNet: 469 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 460 lively customers
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this checklist are, each time accessible, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests each 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, courting all the best way again to 2009.
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,960 areas
- OSgrid: 25,345 areas
- Kitely: 18,262 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 11,723 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,071 areas
- Groovy Verse: 6,422 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,128 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,563 areas
- German World Grid: 2,178 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 954 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- ArtDestiny: 900 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 872 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- AviWorlds: 811 areas
- Kinky Haven: 653 areas
- CandM World: 628 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- AvatarLife: 500 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- DreamNation: 393 areas
- Craft World: 388 areas
- Furry World: 372 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 298 areas
- Neverworld: 293 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 194 areas
- Counter Earth: 182 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- Kater and Friends: 160 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 157 areas
- Outworldz: 150 areas
- German World: 144 areas
- https://canadiangrid.ca/: 144 areas
- GerGrid: 140 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
Have you learnt 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.
