The full land space of OpenSim’s public grids jumped by greater than 33,000 area equivalents this month, with the addition of a giant new grid to our checklist. Nonetheless, the overall variety of lively customers was down by practically 1,500, as a consequence of a number of grids not reporting stats this month. Lacking grids included Fire and Ice, The City, and Little Big City.
The large new grid was Simation Grid, with a reported 25,408 area equivalents. OpenSim’s structure makes it straightforward for grid house owners to launch with loads of area. Or it could possibly be a stats mistake — the grid’s web site says “Normal Area Equivalents: 25408 Km2” — and whether it is really giving the world in sq. kilometers, than it has 387,693 whole areas, which might make it bigger than all the opposite OpenSim grids put collectively. I couldn’t discover any contact data on the grid’s web site, and a number of the pages appear to be placeholders, so in the event you’re the proprietor of Simation Grid and are studying this, and if I acquired your numbers flawed — please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com and I’ll replace this text!
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,675 public grids, of which 318 are lively and 258 revealed their statistics this month. If in case you have 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 added visibility with each serps and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the most important grid by land space, with 33,554 customary area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most lively, with 6,540 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embody many of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are typically non-public grids.
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High 25 grids by lively customers
Relating to 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 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.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,540 lively customers
- OSgrid: 5,168 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,333 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,163 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,967 lively customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,838 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,718 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,521 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,108 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,028 lively customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 987 lively customers
- Neverworld: 962 lively customers
- Littlefield: 935 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 840 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 837 lively customers
- Moonrose: 825 lively customers
- Astralia: 771 lively customers
- Craft World: 744 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 582 lively customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 545 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 537 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 524 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 522 lively customers
- Kitely: 462 lively customers
- Barefoot Dreamers: 438 lively customers
The largest change on this checklist was the addition of Virtual Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a powerful launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 20,965 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,073 product variations, 35,835 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 628 OpenSim grids thus far.
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 crimson 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 out there 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 just lately upgraded its version of OpenSim to permit for quicker start-up instances and higher compatibility with scripts imported from Second Life.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Agartha, AmaziWorld, Casperia Prime, Gridworld, HG Safari Grid, Nosso Lar, Sciattisi Grid, Simation Grid, Steg, and Tenth Dimension.
If you already know of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 9 grids had been marked suspended this month: Eenhgrid, Hermopolis Chimera, Kantarobasta Grid, Kindred Spirits World, Pseudospace, Rocket World, Royal Grid, Starfleet, and Tropicana Grid.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future stories.
Generally, a grid adjustments its login URI or web site deal with — 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 checklist are, every time out there, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time potential.
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 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, relationship all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 33,554 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,276 areas
- Simation Grid: 25,408 areas
- Kitely: 18,108 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,932 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,437 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,201 areas
- Discovery Grid: 4,945 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,527 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,260 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,040 areas
- GBG World: 957 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- ArtDestiny: 900 areas
- AviWorlds: 841 areas
- Craft World: 673 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 594 areas
- Littlefield: 513 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 348 areas
- DreamNation: 308 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Insight Concepts: 240 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 218 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 188 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- Kater and Friends: 185 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 183 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- XTalent: 133 areas
- GerGrid: 132 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.