All of the OpenSim stats have been up this month, as each land space, lively customers, and registered customers all elevated in comparison with mid-December 2024.
The land space of the general public OpenSim grids went up greater than 100 normal area equivalents, lively customers have been up by greater than 600 — and the grids reported over 4,100 new registrations.
Energetic person are the overall variety of distinctive guests to a grid, each native and hypergrid. Registered customers are individuals who have signed up for accounts on a grid, and is often a optimistic signal of individuals’s dedication to a grid — and an early indication of future land leases.
The numbers have been up despite the fact that some grids didn’t publish their stats this month, together with Moonrose, which had greater than 900 actives in October. As well as, the OpenSimulator Neighborhood Convention grid misplaced almost 300 actives as a result of the grid hosted an annual convention the month earlier than, and that site visitors is now gone.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,670 public grids, of which 300 have been lively this month and 246 printed their statistics. 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 probably be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 35,873 normal area equivalents, with a achieve of greater than 250 new areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most lively, with 7,932 distinctive guests over the previous 30 days.


Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are usually personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits folks 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 at no cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas industrial 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 in your OpenSim world or area right here.
Discovery Grid leaves OpenSim for brand new digital world platform
Discovery Grid remains to be within the technique of shutting down, however just a few individuals are nonetheless visiting the grid, most likely as a part of getting all their stuff migrated.
You may learn extra about it right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise now on BlueSky
And we now have a BlueSky account: @HypergridBusiness.
Listed here are just a few other people to comply with:
You may see everybody HGB is following right here.
Go away a notice within the feedback if in case you have a BlueSky account and wish folks to have the ability to comply with you, or if you understand of a grid that does.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now obtainable
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will probably be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by lively customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks seeking to make new pals search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers searching for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,932 lively customers
- OSgrid: 4,743 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,512 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,277 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,253 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,068 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,531 lively customers
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,451 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 1,041 lively customers
- Trianon World: 998 lively customers
- Neverworld: 922 lively customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 915 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 871 lively customers
- Littlefield: 825 lively customers
- Celebration Vacation spot Grid: 811 lively customers
- NakedWorldz: 797 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 689 lively customers
- Eureka World: 570 lively customers
- Craft World: 556 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 546 lively customers
- Astralia: 541 lively customers
- Light Hearth Grid: 512 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 495 lively customers
- Vivo Sim: 478 lively customers
- Kitely: 456 lively customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are presently 20,965 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41071 product variations, 35833 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 637 OpenSim grids up to now.
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.
Final month, the numbers went down just a little bit.
“Sadly just a few shops have been disabled as a result of their homeowners handed away a very long time in the past and we misplaced the power to switch their gross sales earnings to them,” Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Generally, we don’t do that as folks’s subsequent of kin take over their accounts and shut them down themselves, or hold these accounts lively and replace the PayPal payout handle as a way to allow us to switch these shops’ earnings to them.”
It is a reminder to all of us to make provisions for our on-line accounts, particularly these which might be producing revenues.
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 directions for the way to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: BloodMoon, Doghouse, Gaming Associates, Life Grid, Medieval Fantasy, New Horizon, SpaceGrid, The Hub Grid, and Xenolandia.
If you understand of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next grids have been marked as suspended this month: 3World, CyberCity, CyberDataStorm, Eenhgrid, KittyBlue, Mysterious Grid 2, SunEden Resort, Digital Homosexual Pleasure, and Digital 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 handle — if that’s the case, e-mail me and let me know and I’ll replace my database.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this record are, every time obtainable, by way of normal area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests every time potential.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. A listing of all lively grids is right here. And here’s a record 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 may see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 35,873 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 30,054 areas
- Kitely: 18,179 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 13,081 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,696 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,810 areas
- Digital Vista Metaverse: 6,215 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,477 areas
- CandM World: 2,154 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Associates Grid: 1,168 areas
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 areas
- GBG World: 959 areas
- Digital Worlds Grid: 914 areas
- AviWorlds: 827 areas
- Craft World: 765 areas
- Kinky Haven: 685 areas
- AvatarLife: 593 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 367 areas
- Digital Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 356 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
- Open Digital Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Kater and Associates: 204 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 199 areas
- Counter Earth: 198 areas
- Adreans-World: 175 areas
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 166 areas
- SpaceGrid: 159 areas
- Utopia Skye: 157 areas
- XTalent: 147 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- Outworldz: 125 areas
- Logicamp: 124 areas
Are you aware 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.