All of the OpenSim stats had 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 had been up by greater than 600 — and the grids reported over 4,100 new registrations.
Lively person are the entire 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 constructive signal of individuals’s dedication to a grid — and an early indication of future land leases.
The numbers had been up despite the fact 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 Group 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 had been lively this month and 246 revealed their statistics. When you’ve got a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that means, your grid shall be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 35,873 customary area equivalents, with a achieve of greater than 250 new areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most lively, with 7,932 distinctive guests over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are typically personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s just like Second Life and permits individuals with no technical abilities to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities can run OpenSim worlds on their servers free of charge 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 beneficial 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 spanking new digital world platform
Discovery Grid remains to be within the technique of shutting down, however just a few 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 just a few people to observe:
You may see everybody HGB is following right here.
Go away a notice within the feedback when you’ve got a BlueSky account and need individuals to have the ability to observe you, or if you already know 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 shall 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 under.
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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 probably the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the most important viewers — you get the thought.
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
Mild Hearth 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 presently 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 to this point.
As you’ll be able to 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 degree for the previous eight years.
Final month, the numbers went down a bit bit.
“Sadly just a few shops had 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 instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Most often, we don’t do that as individuals’s subsequent of kin take over their accounts and shut them down themselves, or preserve these accounts lively and replace the PayPal payout tackle so as 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 biggest assortment of authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The directions for tips on how to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
New grids
The next grids had 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 already know of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next grids had been marked as suspended this month: 3World, CyberCity, CyberDataStorm, Eenhgrid, KittyBlue, Mysterious Grid 2, SunEden Resort, Digital Homosexual Pleasure, 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 stories.
Typically, a grid adjustments its login URI or web site tackle — 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 checklist are, at any time when accessible, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Lively person counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when doable.
Many college, 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 checklist 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, relationship all the way in which 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? Electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
