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 normal area equivalents, lively customers had been up by greater than 600 — and the grids reported over 4,100 new registrations.
Energetic person are the entire 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 Community Conference grid misplaced almost 300 actives as a result of the grid hosted an annual convention the month earlier than, and that 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 revealed 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 method, your grid will probably 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 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 personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s just like Second Life and permits individuals with no technical abilities to rapidly 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 many who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing 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.
Discovery Grid leaves OpenSim for brand spanking new digital world platform
Discovery Grid remains to be within the strategy of shutting down, however a number of individuals are nonetheless visiting the grid, most likely as a part of getting all their stuff migrated.
You can read more about it here.
Hypergrid Enterprise now on BlueSky
And we now have a BlueSky account: @HypergridBusiness.
Listed here are a number of folks to comply with:
You can see everyone HGB is following here.
Depart a be aware within the feedback you probably have a BlueSky account and wish individuals to have the ability to comply with you, or if you already know of a grid that does.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will probably be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by lively customers
In the case of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks seeking to make new pals 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 prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the thought.
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
- Party Destination 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
- Gentle Fire 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 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 crimson space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
Final month, the numbers went down somewhat 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 instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Normally, we don’t do that as individuals’s subsequent of kin take over their accounts and shut them down themselves, or maintain these accounts lively and replace the PayPal payout handle as a way 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 out there in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The instructions for how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are here.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: BloodMoon, Doghouse, Gaming Friends, 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, Virtual Gay Pride, and Virtual 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.
Typically, a grid modifications 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.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, each time out there, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Energetic person counts embody hypergrid guests each time attainable.
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 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: 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
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 6,215 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,477 areas
- CandM World: 2,154 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,168 areas
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 areas
- GBG World: 959 areas
- Virtual 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
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 356 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Kater and Friends: 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 might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.