The entire land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 131,511 normal areas this month, an all-time excessive, on a rise of greater than 1,000 normal areas in comparison with final month. Nonetheless, the entire variety of lively customers went down by over 3,500.
A part of the lower was because of the truth that the OpenSim Neighborhood Convention was final month, driving up these numbers. Just a few grids additionally didn’t report stats this month, or had outages, or closed, however nothing main — for probably the most half, the lower was because of decrease numbers throughout the board, presumably because of the winter holidays.
Scaling again for 2024
You would possibly discover that this text is considerably shorter than earlier’ months. I’m scaling again my OpenSim protection this 12 months to make extra time for different initiatives. In case you have a press launch, you possibly can ship it to me, however the nearer it’s to publishable format, the faster I’ll have the ability to publish it on the positioning.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,653 public grids, of which 334 are lively and 258 printed their statistics this month. In case you have 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 search engines like google and customers.
Our stats don’t embrace lots of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are usually personal grids.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s much 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 free of charge utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals 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 really helpful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material in your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now accessible
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 may subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
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Prime 25 grids by lively customers
Relating 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 probably the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential clients. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
OSgrid: 5,155 lively customers
Wolf Territories Grid: 4,715 lively customers
DigiWorldz: 2,196 lively customers
GBG World: 2,081 lively customers
Alternate Metaverse: 1,837 lively customers
WaterSplash: 1,354 lively customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 1,342 lively customers
Moonrose: 1,138 lively customers
Littlefield: 1,036 lively customers
Trianon World: 917 lively customers
AviWorlds: 897 lively customers
Neverworld: 887 lively customers
Social gathering Vacation spot Grid: 804 lively customers
Craft World: 685 lively customers
Eureka World: 683 lively customers
Astralia: 657 lively customers
Jungle Mates Grid: 621 lively customers
Kitely: 611 lively customers
German World Grid: 605 lively customers
AvatarLife: 577 lively customers
Herederos Grid: 571 lively customers
Vivo Sim: 547 lively customers
Vida Dupla: 534 lively customers
ProxyNet: 469 lively customers
ZetaWorlds: 460 lively customers
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, every time accessible, by way of normal area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests every time doable.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. A listing of all lively grids is right here. And here’s a listing of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way again to 2009.
Wolf Territories Grid: 28,960 areas
OSgrid: 25,345 areas
Kitely: 18,262 areas
ZetaWorlds: 11,723 areas
Alternate Metaverse: 10,071 areas
Groovy Verse: 6,422 areas
Discovery Grid: 5,128 areas
DigiWorldz: 3,563 areas
German World Grid: 2,178 areas
Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
GBG World: 954 areas
Digital Worlds Grid: 916 areas
ArtDestiny: 900 areas
third Rock Grid: 872 areas
Mates Grid: 816 areas
AviWorlds: 811 areas
Kinky Haven: 653 areas
CandM World: 628 areas
Littlefield: 514 areas
AvatarLife: 500 areas
GorGrid: 430 areas
DreamNation: 393 areas
Craft World: 388 areas
Furry World: 372 areas
Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
EdMondo: 298 areas
Neverworld: 293 areas
Open Digital Worlds: 241 areas
Japan Open Grid: 194 areas
Counter Earth: 182 areas
Adreans-World: 173 areas
Kater and Mates: 160 areas
MisFitz Grid: 157 areas
Outworldz: 150 areas
German World: 144 areas
https://canadiangrid.ca/: 144 areas
GerGrid: 140 areas
OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
Galactic Digital: 127 areas
Are you aware of some other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.