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It’s time for this 12 months’s OpenSim grid survey — and with OSgrid going offline on the finish of the 12 months, lots of people are going to be trying on the outcomes.
OSgrid, the oldest grid in OpenSim and the second hottest, with greater than 4,000 lively customers as of my October stats report, introduced earlier this month that it will shut down at midnight on December 31.
The grid has since mentioned that it’ll come again in 2027 after a reset. However residents’ full inventories gained’t carry over, and areas working on residents’ personal computer systems will not be capable to join, OSgrid treasurer Lawrence Roberts instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Which means many OSgrid residents are actually making an attempt to determine the place to go as an alternative — or whether or not to attend.
So this 12 months, your critiques of your own home grid’s content material, neighborhood, assist, and know-how will assist them, and anyone else in search of a brand new dwelling on the hypergrid.
There are lots of of lively grids in OpenSim, and the extra choices you give individuals, the much less doubtless they’re to take the survey. So I’m limiting the checklist of steered choices to the highest ten hottest grids, as of my October stats report. That checklist contains OSgrid, for the reason that grid remains to be up and working and its residents realize it higher than anybody.
However anybody also can write of their dwelling grid. In earlier years, there was often a write-in grid that had glorious critiques and got here out at or close to the highest of the outcomes. Final 12 months, two write-in grids received the very best general scores.
It is a Google survey, so there are mechanisms to dam automated and spam submissions — and if a grid is discovered to be making an attempt to spam the survey, the entire grid can be banned. (Yup, this has occurred earlier than.)
So in the event you’re a grid proprietor, be happy to inform all of your residents to share their trustworthy assessment of your grid. However don’t supply rewards in return for optimistic critiques, or arrange a bot to spam the survey.
The deadline for submissions is finish of day Wednesday, October 28, Pacific time. I’m planning to put up the outcomes earlier than the tip of the month.
The anonymized outcomes can be shared with grid homeowners on request, however no private info or electronic mail addresses can be shared with anyone. You’ll be able to see the outcomes of our earlier surveys right here.
For those who’re an OSgrid resident making an attempt to resolve the place to go, right here’s the place OSgrid refugees can discover land — a few of it free, and right here’s how you can save your stuff earlier than the grid goes offline.
If the survey isn’t arising within the kind beneath, you may get to it immediately right here.
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