Summer season is usually a sluggish time for OpenSim, and digital worlds generally, as individuals spend extra time exterior and on trip and academic tasks go on break.
The entire variety of lively customers went down by greater than 3,700, to 43,001.
DigiWorldz, for instance, misplaced 1,220 actives this month, in response to its stats stories, in addition to 21 areas.
As well as, a number of grids didn’t report any stats this month, together with German Grid, which had 235 actives final month, German World Grid, which beforehand reported 623, and The City, which reported 265 actives in July.
However the whole land space of OpenSim’s public grids rose by practically 1,494 area equivalents this month, and OpenSim grids registered a complete of 1,545 new customers.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,675 public grids, of which 311 are lively and 244 revealed their statistics this month. If 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 shall be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 33,203 customary area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most lively, with 6,733 distinctive logins 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 much like Second Life and permits individuals with no technical expertise to rapidly 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 many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas industrial 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.
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Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we shall be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe here or fill out the shape under.
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 trying to make new buddies search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers in search of the largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,733 lively customers
- OSgrid: 4,844 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,295 lively customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,987 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,885 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,723 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,447 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,068 lively customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,002 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 943 lively customers
- Trianon World: 937 lively customers
- Neverworld: 897 lively customers
- Littlefield: 822 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 796 lively customers
- Moonrose: 774 lively customers
- Astralia: 763 lively customers
- Craft World: 723 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 717 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 578 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 547 lively customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 494 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 476 lively customers
- Kitely: 460 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 448 lively customers
- DreamNation: 342 lively customers
The most important change on this listing was the addition of Virtual Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a robust launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at present 20,965 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,073 product variations, 35,835 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 628 OpenSim grids so far.
As you possibly can 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 purple 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 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.
Kitely has not too long ago upgraded its version of OpenSim to permit for quicker start-up occasions and higher compatibility with scripts imported from Second Life.
Kitely can also be persevering with its $90 sale on Mega Worlds.
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 11 grids had been marked suspended this month: Butschiland, Butschiland, Destiny Grid, Fire and Ice Grid, Galactic Virtual, IMA Metaverse Depot, KoolPheller Estates, The Public World, Tropical Isle, UCI Mondego vLab, and Virtual RBM.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future stories.
Generally, a grid modifications its login URI or web site tackle — 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, at any time when out there, by way of customary 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 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: 33,203 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,276 areas
- Simation Grid: 25,408 areas
- Kitely: 18,246 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,980 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,605 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,334 areas
- Discovery Grid: 4,945 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,506 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,269 areas
- CandM World: 1,849 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,040 areas
- ArtDestiny: 961 areas
- GBG World: 957 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 914 areas
- AviWorlds: 809 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- Craft World: 630 areas
- AvatarLife: 586 areas
- Littlefield: 513 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 318 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- DreamNation: 284 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 274 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 244 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 197 areas
- Kater and Friends: 191 areas
- Counter Earth: 183 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 175 areas
- Adreans-World: 172 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- XTalent: 138 areas
- Outworldz: 127 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? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
