The climate’s been getting cooler right here within the US the place I stay — some days, at the least. The climate’s been somewhat wonky currently. 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 smart that registered customers and land space each went up within the public OpenSim grids.
What’s extra stunning is that the whole energetic numbers went down — by greater than 2,700 customers.
Positive, Moonrose, which reported over 900 energetic 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 energetic 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 energetic 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 happening 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 sporting cozy sweaters?
Nope! Based on reader Paul Clevett, from Wolf Territories, OSgrid is down for upkeep. And I discovered the announcement. Thanks, Paul, for the heads up!
Apparently, OSgrid is at the moment 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 information which is approx a number of hundred million belongings,” the announcement stated. And it will get worse. The grid shops each the asset knowledge and a redundant copy, however they’re not saved on the precise measurement — each asset appears to be like greater than it really is.
To repair the issue, the grid’s storage must reconfigured, which entails transferring tens of millions of belongings and scrubbing out the phantom additional area to free it up once more. Doing this whereas persons are utilizing the grid would create a foul person expertise, in order that they put it into upkeep mode throughout the bulk of the work.
The dangerous information is that they don’t understand how lengthy it’s going to take. The excellent news is that they don’t count on any belongings to get misplaced.
Anyway, I’m now monitoring a complete of two,677 public grids, of which 295 had been energetic this month and 232 printed their statistics. You probably have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that method, your grid shall be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 32,867 normal area equivalents, regardless that it misplaced greater than 2,000 areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most energetic, with 7,379 distinctive logins 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 non-public grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s just like Second Life and permits folks with no technical abilities to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities can run OpenSim worlds on their servers free of charge utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory 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 on your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we shall 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 under.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
With regards to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new mates search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,379 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 4,046 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,498 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,190 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,058 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,011 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,497 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,092 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,042 energetic customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,020 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 994 energetic customers
- Astralia: 867 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 861 energetic customers
- Get together Vacation spot Grid: 822 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 672 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 605 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 595 energetic customers
- NakedWorldz: 576 energetic customers
- SunEden Resort: 553 energetic customers
- Light Hearth Grid: 514 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 494 energetic customers
- Kitely: 462 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 452 energetic customers
- Jungle Pals Grid: 434 energetic customers
- New Life Italy: 434 energetic customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 20,973 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,105 product variations, 35,866 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 632 OpenSim grids to this point.
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 pink space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed stage for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material out there in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for how one can configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
Kitely additionally introduced help for PBR supplies and bigger textures earlier this month.
New grids
I added one new grid to my database this month: NakedWorldz.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 9 grids had been suspended this month: Angel Grid, Ares World, Binders World, Cajun Grid, DreamNation, Ghost Space, Homeland, KubwasWelt, and Nosso Lar.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future stories.
Typically, a grid adjustments its login URI or web site tackle — 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 checklist are, at any time when out there, by way of normal area equivalents. Lively person counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when attainable.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked knowledge for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all energetic grids is right here. And here’s a checklist of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. 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, courting all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 32,867 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,987 areas
- Kitely: 18,126 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 13,032 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,437 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,756 areas
- Digital Vista Metaverse: 6,217 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,515 areas
- CandM World: 2,094 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,714 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,104 areas
- Pals Grid: 1,040 areas
- Simation Grid: 1,024 areas
- ArtDestiny: 961 areas
- GBG World: 961 areas
- Digital Worlds Grid: 914 areas
- AviWorlds: 818 areas
- Craft World: 711 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 597 areas
- Littlefield: 478 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 372 areas
- Digital Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 323 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Digital Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Counter Earth: 199 areas
- Kater and Pals: 198 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 197 areas
- Adreans-World: 161 areas
- Utopia Skye: 156 areas
- XTalent: 142 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 126 areas
- Outworldz: 126 areas
- Logicamp: 120 areas
Are you aware of some other grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
