OpenSim energetic customers are up by 1,039 this month, reaching a brand new all-time excessive of 48,234. The full land space additionally elevated, by 489 commonplace area equivalents.
Nonetheless, the overall variety of registered customers on all the general public OpenSim grids fell by greater than 10,000 since Might. The largest purpose for the drop? 3rd Rock Grid is now officially closed, with a few of its communities moved to ZetaWorlds. Final month, third Rock Grid reported 13,615 registered customers, although it had solely 250 actives. third Rock was one of many oldest OpenSim grounds, based again in 2008, and amassed a variety of person registrations over the previous decade and a half.
A number of different grids didn’t report their stats this month, together with CandM World, which was energetic this month however confirmed no stats on its stats web page. The grid had over 500 actives in Might.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,663 public grids, of which 309 are energetic and 253 revealed 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 means, your grid might be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 32,547 commonplace area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most energetic, with 6,232 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embrace many of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model 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 individuals 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 every other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing 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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Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we might be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You’ll be able to subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new pals search for grids that have already got probably the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the most important viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,232 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 5,186 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,239 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,156 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,025 energetic customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,750 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,694 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,650 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,101 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,068 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,023 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 936 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 930 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 899 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 839 energetic customers
- Astralia: 836 energetic customers
- Craft World: 791 energetic customers
- Virtualife: 666 energetic customers
- Virtualife: 664 energetic customers
- Kitely: 627 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 596 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 583 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 514 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 511 energetic customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 507 energetic customers
The largest change on this listing was the addition of Virtual Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a robust launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at present 20,793 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,862 product variations, 35,648 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 624 OpenSim grids up to now.
As you’ll be able to see within the above chart, practically 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 obtainable 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.
Kitely has not too long ago doubled the performance of its regions while keeping prices the same.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Lady’s Dreamworld and Virtual Vista Metaverse.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 18 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Admeja, Bernicia, BigOne, Bubble Grid, EducaSim, Eleutherias, Golden Palace Gaming, KittyBlue, Mystic Bermuda, Pleasant Retreat, Resurgence, Royal Grid, Starfleet, The Crying Grid, Tropicana Grid, Twilight, Uzuri Virtual, and VR Playground.
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 modifications 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 listing are, each time obtainable, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Energetic person counts embrace hypergrid guests each time doable.
Many college, 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 if you’re making a hyperport.
You’ll be able to see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 32,547 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,248 areas
- Kitely: 18,077 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,910 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,178 areas
- Groovy Verse: 7,837 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,544 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,253 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 956 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- AviWorlds: 842 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- Craft World: 642 areas
- AvatarLife: 603 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 343 areas
- DreamNation: 314 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 186 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 182 areas
- Kater and Friends: 180 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 168 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- Logicamp: 129 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
- Outworldz: 126 areas
- XTalent: 124 areas
- Utopia Skye: 116 areas
Are you aware of every 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.