OpenSim lively customers are up by 1,039 this month, reaching a brand new all-time excessive of 48,234. The whole land space additionally elevated, by 489 commonplace area equivalents.
Nevertheless, the whole variety of registered customers on all the general public OpenSim grids fell by greater than 10,000 since Could. The most important motive for the drop? 3rd Rock Grid is now officially closed, with a few of its communities moved to ZetaWorlds. Final month, third Rock Grid reported 13,615 registered customers, although it had solely 250 actives. third Rock was one of many oldest OpenSim grounds, based again in 2008, and gathered a whole lot of person registrations over the previous decade and a half.
A number of different grids didn’t report their stats this month, together with CandM World, which was lively this month however confirmed no stats on its stats web page. The grid had over 500 actives in Could.
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,663 public grids, of which 309 are lively and 253 revealed their statistics this month. When you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e-mail me at [email protected] — that approach, your grid can be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each serps and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the most important grid by land space, with 32,547 commonplace area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most lively, with 6,232 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embrace a lot 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 rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise 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 some 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.
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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. Folks seeking to make new mates 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 prospects. Occasion organizers searching for the most important viewers — you get the thought.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 6,232 lively customers
- OSgrid: 5,186 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,239 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,156 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,025 lively customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,750 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,694 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,650 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,101 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 1,068 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,023 lively customers
- Moonrose: 936 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 930 lively customers
- Littlefield: 899 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 839 lively customers
- Astralia: 836 lively customers
- Craft World: 791 lively customers
- Virtualife: 666 lively customers
- Virtualife: 664 lively customers
- Kitely: 627 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 596 lively customers
- Eureka World: 583 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 514 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 511 lively customers
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 507 lively customers
The most important change on this record was the addition of Virtual Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a powerful launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at present 20,793 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,862 product variations, 35,648 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 624 OpenSim grids to this point.
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 stage for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the most important 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 has just lately doubled the performance of its regions while keeping prices the same.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Lady’s Dreamworld and Virtual Vista Metaverse.
If of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at [email protected].
Suspended grids
The next 18 grids have been marked as suspended this month: Admeja, Bernicia, BigOne, Bubble Grid, EducaSim, Eleutherias, Golden Palace Gaming, KittyBlue, Mystic Bermuda, Pleasant Retreat, Resurgence, Royal Grid, Starfleet, The Crying Grid, Tropicana Grid, Twilight, Uzuri Virtual, and VR Playground.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future studies.
Typically, 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.
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this record are, every time obtainable, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Lively person counts embrace hypergrid guests every 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 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: 32,547 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,248 areas
- Kitely: 18,077 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 12,910 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,178 areas
- Groovy Verse: 7,837 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,544 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,253 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 956 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 915 areas
- AviWorlds: 842 areas
- Friends Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- Craft World: 642 areas
- AvatarLife: 603 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 343 areas
- DreamNation: 314 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 186 areas
- Counter Earth: 186 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 182 areas
- Kater and Friends: 180 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 168 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
- Logicamp: 129 areas
- Galactic Virtual: 127 areas
- Outworldz: 126 areas
- XTalent: 124 areas
- Utopia Skye: 116 areas
Are you aware of some other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at [email protected].
