Each land space and lively customers elevated this month in OpenSim, presumably as a result of persons are spending extra time inside, the place it’s heat.
However who is aware of, actually, why individuals do what they do?
Anyway, I’m now monitoring a complete of two,6617 public grids, of which 290 had been lively this month and 231 revealed their statistics. When you 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 added visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the most important grid by land space, with 35,614 normal area equivalents, with a achieve of greater than 2,700 new areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most lively, with 7,737 distinctive guests over the previous 30 days.


Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model 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 individuals with no technical expertise to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers without spending a dime 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 advisable Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material to your OpenSim world or area right here.
Discovery Grid leaves OpenSim for brand new digital world platform
This large information right this moment is that Discovery Grid is shutting down. The plan is for it to reopen on the O3DE platform, which Amazon created then donated to the open supply group.
You’ll be able to 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’ll be able to see everybody HGB is following right here.
Go away a notice within the feedback you probably have a BlueSky account and need individuals to have the ability to comply with you, or if you already know of a grid that does.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now accessible
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely be sending out a e-newsletter 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
With regards to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals seeking to make new mates 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 prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the thought.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,737 lively customers
- OSgrid: 4,262 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,548 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,357 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,192 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,140 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,633 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,142 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,073 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,065 lively customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,018 lively customers
- Sciattisi Grid: 830 lively customers
- Celebration Vacation spot Grid: 826 lively customers
- Littlefield: 761 lively customers
- Craft World: 717 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 656 lively customers
- Light Hearth Grid: 621 lively customers
- Eureka World: 615 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 613 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 582 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 529 lively customers
- NakedWorldz: 512 lively customers
- Kitely: 511 lively customers
- Astralia: 484 lively customers
- Kishaki: 455 lively customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 20,998 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,138 product variations, 35,902 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 634 OpenSim grids to this point.


As you’ll be able to 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 pink space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
Final month, the numbers went down a bit bit.
“Sadly just a few shops had 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 instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Typically, we don’t do that as individuals’s subsequent of kin take over their accounts and shut them down themselves, or hold these accounts lively and replace the PayPal payout handle with a purpose 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 most important assortment of authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for the right way to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
New grids
No new grids had been added to the database prior to now 30 days.
If you already know of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 10 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Alterlifes, Bernicia, Dominator, DowGrid, Goldor Grid, GorGrid, Nova House, The Metropolis, Thrae, and Uzuri Digital.
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 modifications 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.
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, at any time when accessible, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Lively person counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when potential.
Many college, 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 listing of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by reputation. That is very helpful in case you are 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.
- OSgrid: 35,614 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 30,053 areas
- Kitely: 18,156 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 13,029 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,712 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,783 areas
- Digital Vista Metaverse: 6,173 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,485 areas
- CandM World: 2,102 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,618 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Buddies Grid: 1,168 areas
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,104 areas
- GBG World: 961 areas
- Digital Worlds Grid: 914 areas
- AviWorlds: 826 areas
- Craft World: 730 areas
- Kinky Haven: 685 areas
- AvatarLife: 595 areas
- Littlefield: 515 areas
- Neverworld: 374 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Digital Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 346 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
- Open Digital Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 215 areas
- Kater and Buddies: 202 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 199 areas
- Counter Earth: 198 areas
- Adreans-World: 167 areas
- Utopia Skye: 156 areas
- XTalent: 145 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- Logicamp: 124 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 121 areas
- Magic Grid: 121 areas
Are you aware 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.