All of the OpenSim stats had been up this month, as each land space, energetic customers, and registered customers all elevated in comparison with mid-December 2024.
The land space of the general public OpenSim grids went up greater than 100 normal area equivalents, energetic customers had been up by greater than 600 — and the grids reported over 4,100 new registrations.
Lively person are the overall variety of distinctive guests to a grid, each native and hypergrid. Registered customers are individuals who have signed up for accounts on a grid, and is normally a constructive signal of individuals’s dedication to a grid — and an early indication of future land leases.
The numbers had been up although some grids didn’t publish their stats this month, together with Moonrose, which had greater than 900 actives in October. As well as, the OpenSimulator Group Convention grid misplaced almost 300 actives as a result of the grid hosted an annual convention the month earlier than, and that site visitors is now gone.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,670 public grids, of which 300 had been energetic this month and 246 printed their statistics. 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 can be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 35,873 normal area equivalents, with a acquire of greater than 250 new areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most energetic, with 7,932 distinctive guests over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids operating 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 folks with no technical abilities to shortly 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 business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the beneficial Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material in your OpenSim world or area right here.
Discovery Grid leaves OpenSim for brand spanking new digital world platform
Discovery Grid remains to be within the means of shutting down, however a couple of individuals are nonetheless visiting the grid, most likely as a part of getting all their stuff migrated.
You’ll be able to learn extra about it right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise now on BlueSky
And we now have a BlueSky account: @HypergridBusiness.
Listed below are a couple of folks to comply with:
You’ll be able to see everybody HGB is following right here.
Go away a be aware within the feedback when you have a BlueSky account and wish folks to have the ability to comply with you, or if you understand of a grid that does.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now accessible
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we can be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You’ll be able to subscribe right here or fill out the shape under.
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High 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. Individuals trying to make new associates 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 clients. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
Wolf Territories Grid: 7,932 energetic customers
OSgrid: 4,743 energetic customers
GBG World: 2,512 energetic customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 2,277 energetic customers
Alternate Metaverse: 2,253 energetic customers
DigiWorldz: 2,068 energetic customers
WaterSplash: 1,531 energetic customers
Sciattisi Grid: 1,451 energetic customers
AvatarLife: 1,041 energetic customers
Trianon World: 998 energetic customers
Neverworld: 922 energetic customers
AviVerse AlterEgo: 915 energetic customers
AviWorlds: 871 energetic customers
Littlefield: 825 energetic customers
Get together Vacation spot Grid: 811 energetic customers
NakedWorldz: 797 energetic customers
Groovy Verse: 689 energetic customers
Eureka World: 570 energetic customers
Craft World: 556 energetic customers
Herederos Grid: 546 energetic customers
Astralia: 541 energetic customers
Light Fireplace Grid: 512 energetic customers
ZetaWorlds: 495 energetic customers
Vivo Sim: 478 energetic customers
Kitely: 456 energetic customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at present 20,965 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41071 product variations, 35833 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 637 OpenSim grids up to now.
As you’ll be able to see within the above chart, almost 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 stage for the previous eight years.
Final month, the numbers went down somewhat bit.
“Sadly a couple of shops had been disabled as a result of their house owners handed away a very long time in the past and we misplaced the power to switch their gross sales earnings to them,” Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Typically, we don’t do that as folks’s subsequent of kin take over their accounts and shut them down themselves, or hold these accounts energetic and replace the PayPal payout deal with in an effort to allow us to switch these shops’ earnings to them.”
It is a reminder to all of us to make provisions for our on-line accounts, particularly these which might be producing revenues.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for learn how to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: BloodMoon, Doghouse, Gaming Mates, Life Grid, Medieval Fantasy, New Horizon, SpaceGrid, The Hub Grid, and Xenolandia.
If you understand of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next grids had been marked as suspended this month: 3World, CyberCity, CyberDataStorm, Eenhgrid, KittyBlue, Mysterious Grid 2, SunEden Resort, Digital Homosexual Delight, and Digital Grid.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future experiences.
Generally, a grid modifications 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 record are, at any time when accessible, by way of normal area equivalents. Lively person counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when attainable.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. A listing of all energetic grids is right here. And here’s a record of all of 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 historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way again to 2009.
OSgrid: 35,873 areas
Wolf Territories Grid: 30,054 areas
Kitely: 18,179 areas
ZetaWorlds: 13,081 areas
Alternate Metaverse: 10,696 areas
Groovy Verse: 8,810 areas
Digital Vista Metaverse: 6,215 areas
DigiWorldz: 3,477 areas
CandM World: 2,154 areas
Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
Mates Grid: 1,168 areas
ArtDestiny: 1,156 areas
GBG World: 959 areas
Digital Worlds Grid: 914 areas
AviWorlds: 827 areas
Craft World: 765 areas
Kinky Haven: 685 areas
AvatarLife: 593 areas
Littlefield: 514 areas
Furry World: 373 areas
Darkheart’s Playground: 367 areas
Digital Worlds Zone: 364 areas
Neverworld: 356 areas
Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
EdMondo: 300 areas
Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
Open Digital Worlds: 229 areas
MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
Kater and Mates: 204 areas
Japan Open Grid: 199 areas
Counter Earth: 198 areas
Adreans-World: 175 areas
AviVerse AlterEgo: 166 areas
SpaceGrid: 159 areas
Utopia Skye: 157 areas
XTalent: 147 areas
GerGrid: 141 areas
Outworldz: 125 areas
Logicamp: 124 areas
Have you learnt of some 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.
