The climate’s been getting cooler right here within the US the place I stay — some days, no less than. The climate’s been a bit wonky these days. And there have been different issues occurring within the nation that make me need to spend much less time in the actual world and extra time in a digital one. So it is sensible that registered customers and land space each went up within the public OpenSim grids.
What’s extra shocking is that the overall lively numbers went down — by greater than 2,700 customers.
Certain, Moonrose, which reported over 900 lively customers final month, appears to be having web site points and didn’t publish its stats this month. As well as, Vida Dupla, which had 375 actives final month, didn’t report its lively consumer numbers this month. And Nice Canadian Grid, which had over 600 actives final month, is now closed.
However a number of grids additionally reported vital drops in lively consumer numbers. OSgrid reported a drop of greater than 800 actives in comparison with final month, Craft World noticed a drop of over 200, and 5 grids misplaced greater than 100 actives every.
So there’s one thing occurring past only a grid closure and a few reporting points.
Perhaps everybody went out partying for Halloween and spent much less time in-world? Or possibly different folks just like the cooler climate and are having fun with the autumn leaves and brisk walks whereas sporting cozy sweaters?
Nope! In keeping with reader Paul Clevett, from Wolf Territories, OSgrid is down for upkeep. And I found the announcement. Thanks, Paul, for the heads up!
Apparently, OSgrid is presently offline, and has been since November 7, as a result of it’s storage cluster was working out of house.
“OSgrid has 17 years of knowledge which is approx a number of hundred million belongings,” the announcement stated. And it will get worse. The grid shops each the asset knowledge and a redundant copy, however they’re not saved on the precise dimension — each asset seems larger than it truly is.
To repair the issue, the grid’s storage must reconfigured, which entails shifting hundreds of thousands of belongings and scrubbing out the phantom further house to free it up once more. Doing this whereas persons are utilizing the grid would create a nasty consumer expertise, in order that they put it into upkeep mode through the bulk of the work.
The unhealthy information is that they don’t understand how lengthy it’s going to take. The excellent news is that they don’t anticipate any belongings to get misplaced.
Anyway, I’m now monitoring a complete of two,677 public grids, of which 295 have been lively this month and 232 revealed their statistics. You probably have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at [email protected] — that approach, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each search engines like google and yahoo and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 32,867 customary area equivalents, regardless that it misplaced greater than 2,000 areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most lively, with 7,379 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 just like Second Life and permits folks 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 every other distribution, whereas industrial 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.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 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 associates 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 on the lookout for the most important viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,379 lively customers
- OSgrid: 4,046 lively customers
- GBG World: 2,498 lively customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,190 lively customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,058 lively customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,011 lively customers
- WaterSplash: 1,497 lively customers
- Trianon World: 1,092 lively customers
- Neverworld: 1,042 lively customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,020 lively customers
- AviWorlds: 994 lively customers
- Astralia: 867 lively customers
- Littlefield: 861 lively customers
- Party Destination Grid: 822 lively customers
- AvatarLife: 672 lively customers
- Groovy Verse: 605 lively customers
- Eureka World: 595 lively customers
- NakedWorldz: 576 lively customers
- SunEden Resort: 553 lively customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 514 lively customers
- Herederos Grid: 494 lively customers
- Kitely: 462 lively customers
- ZetaWorlds: 452 lively customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 434 lively customers
- New Life Italy: 434 lively customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are presently 20,973 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,105 product variations, 35,866 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 632 OpenSim grids to this point.
As you possibly can 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 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 additionally announced support for PBR materials and larger textures earlier this month.
New grids
I added one new grid to my database this month: NakedWorldz.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail me at [email protected].
Suspended grids
The next 9 grids have been suspended this month: Angel Grid, Ares World, Binders World, Cajun Grid, DreamNation, Ghost Area, Homeland, KubwasWelt, and Nosso Lar.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future studies.
Generally, a grid modifications its login URI or web site tackle — if that’s the case, electronic 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, at any time when out there, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when doable.
Many college, 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 may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 32,867 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,987 areas
- Kitely: 18,126 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 13,032 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,437 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,756 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 6,217 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,515 areas
- CandM World: 2,094 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,714 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,104 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,040 areas
- Simation Grid: 1,024 areas
- ArtDestiny: 961 areas
- GBG World: 961 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 914 areas
- AviWorlds: 818 areas
- Craft World: 711 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 597 areas
- Littlefield: 478 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 372 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 323 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Counter Earth: 199 areas
- Kater and Friends: 198 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 197 areas
- Adreans-World: 161 areas
- Utopia Skye: 156 areas
- XTalent: 142 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 126 areas
- Outworldz: 126 areas
- Logicamp: 120 areas
Are you aware of every other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at [email protected].
