All of the OpenSim stats have 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 customary area equivalents, lively customers have been up by greater than 600 — and the grids reported over 4,100 new registrations.
Energetic consumer are the overall 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 optimistic signal of individuals’s dedication to a grid — and an early indication of future land leases.
The numbers have been up regardless that 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 Neighborhood Convention grid misplaced practically 300 actives as a result of the grid hosted an annual convention the month earlier than, and that site visitors is now gone.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,670 public grids, of which 300 have been lively this month and 246 printed their statistics. You probably have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that means, your grid will probably be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each serps and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the most important grid by land space, with 35,873 customary area equivalents, with a acquire 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 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 folks 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 totally free utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the advisable Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material on your OpenSim world or area right here.
Discovery Grid leaves OpenSim for brand new digital world platform
Discovery Grid remains to be within the technique of shutting down, however a number of persons are nonetheless visiting the grid, in all probability as a part of getting all their stuff migrated.
You may learn extra about it right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise now on BlueSky
And we now have a BlueSky account: @HypergridBusiness.
Listed here are a number of people to observe:
You may see everybody HGB is following right here.
Go away a word within the feedback you probably have a BlueSky account and need folks to have the ability to observe you, or if you understand of a grid that does.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now accessible
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will probably be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
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Prime 25 grids by lively customers
Relating to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals seeking to make new mates 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 clients. Occasion organizers in search of the largest viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 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
Get together Vacation spot 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
Light Fireplace 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 thus far.
As you may 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 stage for the previous eight years.
Final month, the numbers went down a bit of bit.
“Sadly a number of shops have 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 advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Generally, we don’t do that as folks’s subsequent of kin take over their accounts and shut them down themselves, or preserve these accounts lively and replace the PayPal payout handle as a way to allow us to switch these shops’ earnings to them.”
This can be 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 most important assortment of authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for the way to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
New grids
The next grids have been added to our database this month: BloodMoon, Doghouse, Gaming Associates, Life Grid, Medieval Fantasy, New Horizon, SpaceGrid, The Hub Grid, and Xenolandia.
If you understand of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next grids have been marked as suspended this month: 3World, CyberCity, CyberDataStorm, Eenhgrid, KittyBlue, Mysterious Grid 2, SunEden Resort, Digital Homosexual Delight, and Digital Grid.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future reviews.
Generally, a grid adjustments its login URI or web site handle — if that’s the case, electronic mail me and let me know and I’ll replace my database.
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this checklist are, each time accessible, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests each time potential.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked knowledge for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all lively grids is right here. And here’s a checklist of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, courting 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
Digital Vista Metaverse: 6,215 areas
DigiWorldz: 3,477 areas
CandM World: 2,154 areas
Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
Associates Grid: 1,168 areas
ArtDestiny: 1,156 areas
GBG World: 959 areas
Digital 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
Digital Worlds Zone: 364 areas
Neverworld: 356 areas
Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
EdMondo: 300 areas
Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
Open Digital Worlds: 229 areas
MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
Kater and Associates: 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 some 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.
