Replace: I used to be lacking the stats for GBG World as a result of my database didn’t choose them up. (They’re in a non-standard format.) I’ve added them manually and up to date the story. For an instance of a fantastic stats web page, take a look at Baller Nation’s stats or Discovery Grid’s stats or Alternate Metaverse’s stats. The default Diva WiFi web page from DreamGrid additionally works. The numbers I pull are the overall registered customers, whole 30-day actives (together with each native and hypergrid), and land space in normal area equivalents (or sq. meters). The much less stuff on the web page and the less complicated the formatting, the better it’s to arrange the scraping algorithm.
Because of an OSgrid person modeling all of North America, the overall variety of standard-sized areas in OpenSim continues to be an astronomical 973,193.
Land is land, and loads of individuals put up areas in OpenSim that no person ever makes use of as a result of land is so low cost — even free, should you run them by yourself computer systems — so on the one hand, I ought to depend these.
Alternatively, it can make my bar chart completely inconceivable 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 previously month — for a complete of 37,246 — as a substitute of the 864,410 it’s reporting now.
Anyway, that individual weirdness apart, OpenSim’s industrial grids reported 12,308 extra normal area equivalents this month, 366 fewer registered customers, and 14 fewer energetic customers.
Eleven 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 depend, OpenSim now has the equal of 159,922 normal area equivalents, 46,230 energetic customers, and 491,935 registered customers.
Our stats don’t embody many 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 just like Second Life and permits individuals with no technical expertise to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers without cost 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.
A listing of OpenSim hosting providers is here. For those who provide area leases and should not on this record, e-mail me!
You possibly can obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
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 possibly can subscribe here or fill out the shape under.
Prime 25 grids by energetic customers
In the case of 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 searching for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 11,274 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 4,258 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,606 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,303 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,032 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,542 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,535 energetic customers
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,502 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 1,384 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 1,036 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 916 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 855 energetic customers
- Craft World: 827 energetic customers
- Sanctum Astra: 826 energetic customers
- BloodMoon: 817 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 787 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 786 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 782 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 548 energetic customers
- SpaceGrid: 435 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 430 energetic customers
- Kitely: 394 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 386 energetic customers
- Astralia: 384 energetic customers
- Vivo Sim: 365 energetic customers
Canadian Grid shuts down
Canadian Grid — to not be confused with the Nice Canadian Grid, which can be closed — has shuttered its doorways on account of a scarcity of curiosity, grid proprietor Chris Strachan informed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Usually, when a grid shuts down, there are individuals worrying about easy methods 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.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 21,137 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,907 product variations, 36,620 of that are bought with the Export permission, based on Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 666 OpenSim grids so far.
The numbers are all up because the begin of the 12 months, and, as all the time, almost all the expansion has been in exportable content material. Which means that patrons can have their purchases delivered on to avatar inventories on different grids, and that they will journey to different grids with the content material.
Within the early days of OpenSim, many creators thought of this to be a safety danger, and non-exportable content material dominated. However creators shortly realized that the majority copybotted content material truly comes from Second Life, the place every part is non-exportable. And, basically, copybot instruments and content material thieves don’t trouble to verify merchandise permissions earlier than committing their thefts. As a substitute, permitting individuals to buy exported content material legally, conveniently, and at affordable costs destroys the copybot economic system fully, leaving solely a handful of freebie shops on grids that haven’t but observed that they exist and brought them down.
One other supply of reputable content material on OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s merchandise, and people of different creators that give them away without cost. Many official freebie shops on OpenSim grids provide these merchandise.
That is just like how Netflix and different low-cost and free streaming surfaces dramatically decreased on-line film piracy.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of business authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The instructions for how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are here.
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this record are, each time accessible, by way of normal area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests each 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 possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 37,246 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 33,258 areas
- Kitely: 17,840 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 17,049 areas
- Groovy Verse: 14,979 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 11,180 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,405 areas
- Neverworld: 2,634 areas
- GBG World: 1,951 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
- Exotic Realities: 603 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
- SpaceGrid: 157 areas
- Utopia Skye: 147 areas
- I Love You Grid: 147 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- Logicamp: 133 areas
- Outworldz: 129 areas
Have you learnt of some other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at [email protected].
