This time of yr — within the northern hemisphere, a minimum of — folks begin spending extra time inside as temperatures drop and faculty begins.
So it’s no shock that the overall variety of energetic customers on the general public OpenSim grids goes up.
In accordance with their revealed stats report, there have been 44,129 actives this up, up by 1,128 from this time a month in the past.
Nonetheless, the overall land space went down, by the equal of 738 commonplace areas. All of that drop — after which some — is accounted for by the truth that a single grid, CandM World, didn’t report its stats this month. Final month, it had over 1,800 areas. In the present day, the web site simply exhibits a safety error message, so it may simply be a configuration error.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,675 public grids, of which 311 are energetic and 244 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 manner, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the most important grid by land space, with 34,103 commonplace area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most energetic, with 6,950 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embrace a lot 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 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 individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another 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.
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 beneath.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
With regards to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals seeking to make new associates 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.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,950 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 4,894 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,422 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,143 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,018 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,789 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,491 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,101 energetic customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,024 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,004 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 953 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 861 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 858 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 792 energetic customers
- Craft World: 790 energetic customers
- Astralia: 717 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 638 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 566 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 564 energetic customers
- SunEden Resort: 552 energetic customers
- Great Canadian Grid: 550 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 496 energetic customers
- Kitely: 495 energetic customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 456 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 437 energetic customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 21,019 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,133 product variations, 35,892 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 630 OpenSim grids up to now.
As you may 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 purple space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of 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.
Kitely is constant its $90 sale on Mega Worlds, which is at the moment scheduled to finish on Oct. 15.
New grids
I didn’t add any new grids to the database this month.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 12 grids have been suspended this month: BachmansWorld One, CatGrid, DigiGrids, German Grid, Legacy, Mathesis, Matrix, NewOffworld, Oczko, SFgrid, Steg, and Trinity’s DreamGrid/
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 adjustments 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 record are, each time accessible, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Energetic person counts embrace 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 reputation. 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: 34,103 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,277 areas
- Simation Grid: 25,408 areas
- Kitely: 18,320 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 13,010 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,605 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,380 areas
- Discovery Grid: 4,919 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,526 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,284 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,088 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,040 areas
- ArtDestiny: 961 areas
- GBG World: 960 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 914 areas
- AviWorlds: 839 areas
- Craft World: 688 areas
- Kinky Haven: 677 areas
- AvatarLife: 587 areas
- Littlefield: 513 areas
- GorGrid: 428 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 332 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 276 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 270 areas
- DreamNation: 264 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 206 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 196 areas
- Kater and Friends: 193 areas
- Counter Earth: 190 areas
- Adreans-World: 170 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- XTalent: 140 areas
- Outworldz: 132 areas
- Arcadia Asylum: 123 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.
