This time of yr — within the northern hemisphere, a minimum of — individuals begin spending extra time inside as temperatures drop and college begins.
So it’s no shock that the overall variety of lively customers on the general public OpenSim grids goes up.
Based on their printed 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 normal 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. Right this moment, the web site simply exhibits a safety error message, so it might simply be a configuration error.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,675 public grids, of which 311 are lively and 244 printed 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 method, your grid shall be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 34,103 normal area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most lively, with 6,950 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embody many of the grids working 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 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 totally free 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.
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.
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Prime 25 grids by lively customers
In relation to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new pals 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 prospects. Occasion organizers searching for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,950 lively customers
- OSgrid: 4,894 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,422 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,143 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,018 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,789 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,491 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,101 lively customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,024 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,004 lively customers
- Neverworld: 953 lively customers
- Moonrose: 861 lively customers
- Littlefield: 858 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 792 lively customers
- Craft World: 790 lively customers
- Astralia: 717 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 638 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 566 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 564 lively customers
- SunEden Resort: 552 lively customers
- Great Canadian Grid: 550 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 496 lively customers
- Kitely: 495 lively customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 456 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 437 lively 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 so far.
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 crimson space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material obtainable 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 continuous its $90 sale on Mega Worlds, which is at the moment scheduled to finish of 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 had 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 handle — if that’s the case, e mail me and let me know and I’ll replace my database.
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, at any time when obtainable, by way of normal area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when potential.
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 if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way 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 some other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.