OpenSim user growth cools down with chilly weather – Hypergrid Business

The climate’s been getting cooler right here within the US the place I stay — some days, a minimum of. The climate’s been just a little wonky these days. And there have been different issues occurring within the nation that make me need to spend much less time in the actual world and extra time in a digital one. So it is sensible that registered customers and land space each went up within the public OpenSim grids.

What’s extra stunning is that the entire lively numbers went down — by greater than 2,700 customers.

Positive, Moonrose, which reported over 900 lively customers final month, appears to be having web site points and didn’t publish its stats this month. As well as, Vida Dupla, which had 375 actives final month, didn’t report its lively person numbers this month. And Nice Canadian Grid, which had over 600 actives final month, is now closed.

However a number of grids additionally reported important drops in lively person numbers. OSgrid reported a drop of greater than 800 actives in comparison with final month, Craft World noticed a drop of over 200, and 5 grids misplaced greater than 100 actives every.

So there’s one thing occurring past only a grid closure and a few reporting points.

Possibly everybody went out partying for Halloween and spent much less time in-world? Or perhaps different folks just like the cooler climate and are having fun with the autumn leaves and brisk walks whereas carrying cozy sweaters?

Nope! In accordance with reader Paul Clevett, from Wolf Territories, OSgrid is down for upkeep. And I found the announcement. Thanks, Paul, for the heads up!

Apparently, OSgrid is at present offline, and has been since November 7, as a result of it’s storage cluster was operating out of area.

“OSgrid has 17 years of knowledge which is approx a number of hundred million property,” the announcement mentioned. And it will get worse. The grid shops each the asset information and a redundant copy, however they’re not saved on the precise measurement — each asset seems to be larger than it truly is.

To repair the issue, the grid’s storage must reconfigured, which entails shifting tens of millions of property and scrubbing out the phantom additional area to free it up once more. Doing this whereas individuals are utilizing the grid would create a nasty person expertise, so that they put it into upkeep mode throughout the bulk of the work.

The unhealthy information is that they don’t know the way lengthy it’s going to take. The excellent news is that they don’t count on any property to get misplaced.

Anyway, I’m now monitoring a complete of two,677 public grids, of which 295 had been lively this month and 232 printed their statistics. In case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that manner, your grid shall be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each engines like google and customers.