Attributable to an OSgrid person modeling all of North America, the whole variety of standard-sized areas in OpenSim remains to be an astronomical 973,193.
Land is land, and loads of folks put up areas in OpenSim that no one ever makes use of as a result of land is so low cost — even free, in the event you run them by yourself computer systems — so on the one hand, I ought to rely these.
Then again, it’ll make my bar chart completely unattainable to learn! So I’m leaving these areas out, and counting OSgrid as if it solely had the 35,873 areas it did earlier this 12 months, earlier than the grand geography experiment, plus the 1,373 areas it added up to now month — for a complete of 37,246 — as an alternative of the 864,410 it’s reporting now.
Anyway, that individual weirdness apart, OpenSim’s industrial grids reported 1,585 fewer customary area equivalents this month, 1,850 fewer registered customers, and three,320 fewer lively customers.
This is likely to be as a result of holidays, as an alternative of staying at dwelling individuals are going to Halloween events and planning Thanksgiving meals. Or it might be as a result of the whole variety of lively grids dropped from 257 to 249, and the variety of grids reporting stats dropped from 199 to 185.
Particularly, 11 grids have been marked as suspended this month: Eenhgrid, Gabngio, Gridworld, KittyBlue, Lonetree, Moonlighting Grid, Nitro, Paradise City, SiLi, Six Sides, and VR-ESC. Some grids closed for good, together with Canadian Grid.
By my rely, OpenSim now has the equal of 146,029 customary area equivalents, 42,924 lively customers, and 490,451 registered customers.
Our stats don’t embrace many 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 without spending a dime 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 hosting providers is here. When you provide area leases and usually are not on this record, e-mail me!
You may obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now obtainable
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will probably be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by lively customers
With regards to 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 probably the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential clients. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 11,274 lively customers
- OSgrid: 4,258 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,303 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,032 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,542 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,535 lively customers
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,502 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 1,384 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 1,036 lively customers
- Neverworld: 916 lively customers
- Trianon World: 855 lively customers
- Craft World: 827 lively customers
- Sanctum Astra: 826 lively customers
- BloodMoon: 817 lively customers
- Littlefield: 787 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 786 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 782 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 548 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 430 lively customers
- Kitely: 394 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 386 lively customers
- Astralia: 384 lively customers
- Vivo Sim: 365 lively customers
- Free Life: 361 lively customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 361 lively customers
Canadian Grid shuts down
Canadian Grid — to not be confused with the Nice Canadian Grid, which can also be closed — has shuttered its doorways as a consequence of an absence of curiosity, grid proprietor Chris Strachan advised Hypergrid Enterprise.
Usually, when a grid shuts down, there are folks worrying about find out how to switch their areas, content material, avatars, and scheduled occasions to their new grids — and I write an article in regards to the migration.
That’s not the case right here, because the grid had none of these issues. Since we began monitoring the grid a 12 months in the past, it had a most of 13 guests a month, with one month the place it simply had three.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this record are, each time obtainable, by way of customary area equivalents. Lively person counts embrace hypergrid guests each time attainable.
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 reputation. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 864,410 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 33,258 areas
- Kitely: 17,840 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 17,049 areas
- Groovy Verse: 14,979 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,405 areas
- Neverworld: 2,634 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,168 areas
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 areas
- Sub-Version Space: 1,065 areas
- Craft World: 1,030 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 910 areas
- AviWorlds: 812 areas
- Kinky Haven: 685 areas
- AvatarLife: 615 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 558 areas
- Littlefield: 533 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 423 areas
- Furry World: 358 areas
- EdMondo: 310 areas
- BloodMoon: 272 areas
- Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- OliGrid: 214 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 201 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 199 areas
- Adreans-World: 170 areas
- Kater and Friends: 162 areas
- Utopia Skye: 147 areas
- I Love You Grid: 147 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- Logicamp: 133 areas
- Outworldz: 129 areas
- Jungle Friends Grid: 125 areas
- Magic Grid: 121 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 118 areas
- Twilight: 104 areas
Have you learnt of some other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at [email protected].
