The full land space in OpenSim fell this month by over 3,000 normal area equivalents, the entire variety of registered customers fell by simply over 1,000, and the variety of lively month-to-month customers dropped by 425 in comparison with this time final month.
The area loss was on account of the truth that Discovery Grid didn’t report its area totals this month. In April, the grid reported 5,178 normal area equivalents.
As well as, a number of grids didn’t report their stats this month, together with Kater and Friends, ProxyNet, Caribou Grid, and Resurgence. Every of those grids has reported a whole lot of lively customers earlier this 12 months. If the grid has moved, please let me know at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
The numerical losses weren’t on account of 3rd Rock Grid’s closure yesterday, since that grid nonetheless confirmed up as lively for the previous 4 weeks and did report its stats. Its loss will present up in subsequent month’s stats report.
The full land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 135,700 normal areas this month, down from final month’s all-time excessive — and nonetheless a number of occasions greater that the entire land space of Second Life.
The largest gainer by way of land space was OSgrid, which gained 1,160 new normal area equivalents, sustaining its standing as the most important public grid in OpenSim. It was adopted in progress numbers by ZetaWorlds with 1,024 new areas and Wolf Territories Grid with 384 new areas.
On the identical time, the variety of lively customers dropped to 47,195.
Wolf Territories Grid retained their first-place place by visitors numbers.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,661 OpenSim grids, of which 307 had been lively, and 249 printed their statistics this month. When you’ve got a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that method, your grid will probably be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
The next grids had been added to our database this month: 3World, BachmansWorld One, Bridger, CyberDataStorm, and Dark Heaven.
Additionally, I’m now 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’ve got information, please e mail me earlier than the tenth of the month if you need 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 embody most of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically personal 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 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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Prime 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 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 prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,904 lively customers
- OSgrid: 5,263 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,174 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,125 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,001 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,462 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,419 lively customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,222 lively customers
- Moonrose: 1,149 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,105 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,086 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,014 lively customers
- Littlefield: 993 lively customers
- Craft World: 965 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 940 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 845 lively customers
- Astralia: 773 lively customers
- Virtualife: 750 lively customers
- Kitely: 655 lively customers
- German World Grid: 623 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 618 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 588 lively customers
- CandM World: 563 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 505 lively customers
- Eureka World: 490 lively customers
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this record are, every time accessible, by way of normal area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time doable.
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’ll be able to see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 30,960 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,928 areas
- Kitely: 18,085 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,772 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 9,811 areas
- Groovy Verse: 7,864 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,546 areas
- German World Grid: 2,476 areas
- CandM World: 1,760 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 956 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- 3rd Rock Grid: 872 areas
- AviWorlds: 853 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 605 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- Craft World: 471 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Tomi’s World: 400 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 344 areas
- DreamNation: 318 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 194 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 181 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 137 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- Outworldz: 127 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
- Logicamp: 123 areas
Are you aware of some other 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.