All of the OpenSim stats had been up this month, as each land space, lively 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 commonplace area equivalents, lively customers had been up by greater than 600 — and the grids reported over 4,100 new registrations.
Energetic person are the full 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 optimistic signal of individuals’s dedication to a grid — and an early indication of future land leases.
The numbers had been up though 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 Neighborhood Convention grid misplaced practically 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 lively this month and 246 printed their statistics. 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 extra visibility with each serps and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 35,873 commonplace area equivalents, with a achieve of greater than 250 new areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most lively, with 7,932 distinctive guests over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids working 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 much like Second Life and permits individuals 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 without spending a dime utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or every 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 advisable 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 new digital world platform
Discovery Grid continues to be within the technique of shutting down, however a number of persons 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 here are a number of people to observe:
You’ll be able to see everybody HGB is following right here.
Go away a be aware within the feedback when you’ve got a BlueSky account and wish individuals to have the ability to observe you, or if you already know 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 will likely 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 beneath.
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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 seeking to make new mates 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 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 lively customers
OSgrid: 4,743 lively customers
GBG World: 2,512 lively customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 2,277 lively customers
Alternate Metaverse: 2,253 lively customers
DigiWorldz: 2,068 lively customers
WaterSplash: 1,531 lively customers
Sciattisi Grid: 1,451 lively customers
AvatarLife: 1,041 lively customers
Trianon World: 998 lively customers
Neverworld: 922 lively customers
AviVerse AlterEgo: 915 lively customers
AviWorlds: 871 lively customers
Littlefield: 825 lively customers
Celebration Vacation spot Grid: 811 lively customers
NakedWorldz: 797 lively customers
Groovy Verse: 689 lively customers
Eureka World: 570 lively customers
Craft World: 556 lively customers
Herederos Grid: 546 lively customers
Astralia: 541 lively customers
Light Fireplace Grid: 512 lively customers
ZetaWorlds: 495 lively customers
Vivo Sim: 478 lively customers
Kitely: 456 lively customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 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 to this point.
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 degree for the previous eight years.
Final month, the numbers went down just a little bit.
“Sadly a number 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 flexibility to switch their gross sales earnings to them,” Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Most often, we don’t do that as individuals’s subsequent of kin take over their accounts and shut them down themselves, or hold these accounts lively and replace the PayPal payout deal with with a purpose 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 can 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 how you can 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 Associates, Life Grid, Medieval Fantasy, New Horizon, SpaceGrid, The Hub Grid, and Xenolandia.
If you already know 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 Pleasure, 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 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 accessible, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests every time attainable.
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 checklist of all of 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 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
Associates 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 Associates: 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 every 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.
