The full land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 131,511 normal areas this month, an all-time excessive, on a rise of greater than 1,000 normal areas in comparison with final month. Nevertheless, the entire variety of lively customers went down by over 3,500.
A part of the lower was because of the truth that the OpenSim Neighborhood Convention was final month, driving up these numbers. A number of grids additionally did not report stats this month, or had outages, or closed, however nothing main — for probably the most half, the lower was because of decrease numbers throughout the board, probably 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. When you have a press launch, you possibly can ship it to me, however the nearer it’s to publishable format, the faster I’ll be capable of publish 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. When you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e-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.
Our stats don’t embody most of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are usually non-public 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 individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the really useful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material to your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now out there
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’ll be able to subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
Prime 25 grids by lively customers
In terms of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new pals search for grids that have already got probably the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential clients. Occasion organizers in search of the largest viewers — you get the thought.
Prime 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
- Get together Vacation spot Grid: 804 lively customers
- Craft World: 685 lively customers
- Eureka World: 683 lively customers
- Astralia: 657 lively customers
- Jungle Mates 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
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, every time out there, by way of normal area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests every time doable.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked knowledge for this month’s report is right here. A listing of all lively grids is right here. And here’s a listing of all of 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 historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which 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
- Digital Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- ArtDestiny: 900 areas
- third Rock Grid: 872 areas
- Mates 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 Digital Worlds: 241 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 194 areas
- Counter Earth: 182 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- Kater and Mates: 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 Digital: 127 areas
Have you learnt of another grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
