The whole land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 138,831 commonplace areas this month, an all-time excessive — and the fourth month in a row that OpenSim land space has damaged this document. That’s a rise of greater than 5,000 areas since final month.
The largest gainer by way of land space was OSgrid, which gained 2,655 new areas, taking the highest slot again from Wolf Territories Grid.
On the identical time, the variety of lively customers hit 47,620, one other document, and a rise of greater than 2,000 actives in comparison with the earlier month. Right here, Wolf Territories maintained its management place after gaining 307 new lively customers.
In the meantime, the full variety of regionally registered customers in OpenSim went up by greater than 2,000, led by AvatarLife with 521 new registrations.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,657 public grids, of which 313 have been lively, and 247 printed 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 added visibility with each engines like google and customers.
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Nordlicht Grid and Royal Grid.
Additionally, I’m not sending out a month-to-month e-mail blast reminding OpenSim grid homeowners to ship me information and updates for this report. When you have information, please e-mail me earlier than the tenth of the month in order for you a brief merchandise included on this month-to-month wrap-up. For longer information, be happy to ship me press releases at any time.
Our stats don’t embrace most of the grids operating on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically non-public grids.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s much 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 at no cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
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High 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 buddies 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 searching for the most important viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,578 lively customers
- OSgrid: 5,250 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,168 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,112 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,996 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,680 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,384 lively customers
- Moonrose: 1,202 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 1,133 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,088 lively customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,062 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,011 lively customers
- Littlefield: 996 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 987 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 861 lively customers
- Craft World: 780 lively customers
- Astralia: 703 lively customers
- Eureka World: 654 lively customers
- Virtualife: 636 lively customers
- Kitely: 612 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 600 lively customers
- Resurgence: 590 lively customers
- Friends Grid: 583 lively customers
- German World Grid: 567 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 547 lively customers
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this record are, at any time when out there, by way of commonplace area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests at any time when potential.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The raw data for this month’s report is here. A list of all active grids is here. And here’s a list of all the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 29,800 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,544 areas
- Kitely: 18,151 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 11,748 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,208 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,121 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,178 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,572 areas
- German World Grid: 2,476 areas
- CandM World: 1,595 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 953 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 872 areas
- AviWorlds: 859 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 589 areas
- Littlefield: 516 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Tomi’s World: 400 areas
- Craft World: 390 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- DreamNation: 318 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Neverworld: 291 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Kater and Friends: 187 areas
- Counter Earth: 187 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 184 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 172 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 149 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- Outworldz: 127 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
Are you aware 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.