OpenSim’s land space and lively customers each decreased this week, principally on account of an OSgrid outage lasting greater than two weeks.
Since OSgrid has been on-line up to now month, it’s nonetheless included on this stats report.
The general public metaverse misplaced the equal of 4,116 standard-sized areas this month, and 370 lively customers for a brand new whole of 145,420 areas and 48,006 actives.
As well as, Littlefield, which had greater than 400 areas and over 600 actives final month, didn’t report any statistics this month and, as of its writing, the web site is down, there have been no updates to its Twitter web page since early 2025, and its Faccebook web page says “content material unavailable.”
The overall variety of registered customers went up nonetheless, by greater than 7,000, principally on account of the truth that EdMondo — an academic grid that has over 10,000 registered customers — was again up. It was down in Might.
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Ay Island, Flotsam, Kirmes Creations, Lux Serenity, MK3, OpenSim Community, and SkyeLand.
The next 12 grids have been suspended this month: Alterlifes, Austria Grid, CandorsRPWorld, Contemporary MetaVerse Retro, Life RPG World, Nekolution, Ocean Grid, Serenity, Sublimit Metaverse, Tedesco Sim’s, Vivec, and XTAL.
Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free, easy-to-use model of OpenSim, since these are usually non-public grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source digital world platform that’s much like Second Life and permits folks with no technical expertise to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers at no cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. For those who provide area leases and should not on this record, electronic mail me!
You may obtain the really helpful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material to your OpenSim world or area right here.
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High 25 grids by lively customers
In terms of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals seeking to make new buddies 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 largest viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
Wolf Territories Grid: 12,855 lively customers
OSgrid: 3,180 lively customers
GBG World: 2,481 lively customers
Alternate Metaverse: 2,247 lively customers
DigiWorldz: 1,971 lively customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 1,529 lively customers
Groovy Verse: 1,509 lively customers
Cave Grid: 1,247 lively customers
Sciattisi Grid: 1,134 lively customers
Neverworld: 1,126 lively customers
Sanctum Astra: 936 lively customers
New Life Italy: 905 lively customers
Trianon World: 899 lively customers
AvatarLife: 824 lively customers
Craft World: 778 lively customers
BloodMoon: 723 lively customers
AviWorlds: 719 lively customers
Social gathering Vacation spot Grid: 719 lively customers
Associates Grid: 606 lively customers
Free Life: 519 lively customers
SpaceGrid: 503 lively customers
Eureka World: 446 lively customers
ZetaWorlds: 444 lively customers
Astralia: 425 lively customers
MK3: 395 lively customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
As of Might, there are 21,960 product listings in Kitely Market, containing 42,792 product variations, of which 37,485 are exportable, in accordance with Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner.
“Given OSgrid’s present downtime, I’d prefer to remind individuals who purchased gadgets in Kitely Market and had them delivered to their OSgrid avatars that they’ll have these orders redelivered to their Kitely avatar,” Tochner informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Kitely supplies a dependable residence for folks and allows patrons from Kitely Market to regain entry to their misplaced purchases if their grid shuts down.”
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 679 OpenSim grids to this point.
Traditionally, all of the Kitely Market progress has been in exportable content material. Which means patrons can have their purchases delivered on to avatar inventories on different grids, and that they’ll journey to different grids with the content material.
Within the early days of OpenSim, many creators thought of this to be a safety threat, and non-exportable content material dominated. However creators shortly realized that the majority copybotted content material really comes from Second Life, the place every part is non-exportable. And, on the whole, copybot instruments and content material thieves don’t hassle to test merchandise permissions earlier than committing their thefts. As a substitute, permitting folks to buy exported content material legally, conveniently, and at affordable costs destroys the copybot economic system totally, leaving solely a handful of freebie shops on grids that haven’t but seen that they exist and brought them down.
One other supply of reputable content material on OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s merchandise, and people of different creators that give them away at no cost beneath Artistic Commons and related licenses. Many official freebie shops on OpenSim grids provide these merchandise.
That is much like how Netflix and different low-cost and free streaming providers dramatically diminished on-line film piracy.
The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of business authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for how one can configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
High 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 embody hypergrid guests every time attainable.
There have been a complete of 314 lively grids this month, 241 of which printed statistics. I’m presently monitoring a complete of two,143 grids.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all lively grids is right here. And here’s a record of all of 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 historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
Wolf Territories Grid: 33,856 areas
OSgrid: 21,088 areas
Kitely: 17,730 areas
ZetaWorlds: 16,954 areas
Groovy Verse: 13,986 areas
Alternate Metaverse: 11,883 areas
Neverworld: 2,984 areas
DigiWorldz: 2,520 areas
GBG World: 1,929 areas
Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
Tag Grid: 1,577 areas
Associates Grid: 1,497 areas
Sub-Model Area: 1,040 areas
ArtDestiny: 1,024 areas
Digital Worlds Grid: 910 areas
Craft World: 907 areas
Unique Realities: 759 areas
Kinky Haven: 705 areas
AviWorlds: 646 areas
New Life Italy: 636 areas
AvatarLife: 632 areas
Digital Worlds Zone: 562 areas
Darkheart’s Playground: 424 areas
Furry World: 358 areas
BloodMoon: 313 areas
EdMondo: 310 areas
Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
Open Digital Worlds: 241 areas
MisFitz Grid: 210 areas
Japan Open Grid: 201 areas
Humorous Rides: 193 areas
Sense Limits: 185 areas
Spartans Preserve: 180 areas
Maze of The Thoughts: 174 areas
I Love You Grid: 172 areas
Kater and Associates: 171 areas
Dynamic Worldz: 171 areas
Adreans-World: 165 areas
Seconds: 161 areas
Logicamp: 142 areas
Have you learnt of another grids which are open to the general public however that I don’t have in my database? E-mail me at [email protected].
