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 of wonky recently. And there have been different issues taking place within the nation that make me need to spend much less time in the true world and extra time in a digital one. So it is smart that registered customers and land space each went up within the public OpenSim grids.
What’s extra shocking is that the whole energetic numbers went down — by greater than 2,700 customers.
Positive, Moonrose, which reported over 900 energetic 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 energetic 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 important drops in energetic 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 happening 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 response to 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 at present offline, and has been since November 7, as a result of it’s storage cluster was working out of area.
“OSgrid has 17 years of knowledge which is approx a number of hundred million property,” 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 measurement — each asset seems to be greater than it truly is.
To repair the issue, the grid’s storage must reconfigured, which includes shifting hundreds of thousands of property and scrubbing out the phantom additional area to free it up once more. Doing this whereas persons are utilizing the grid would create a nasty consumer expertise, so that they put it into upkeep mode through the bulk of the work.
The unhealthy information is that they don’t know the way lengthy it’s going to take. The excellent news is that they don’t count on any property to get misplaced.
Anyway, I'm now monitoring a complete of two,677 public grids, of which 295 have been energetic this month and 232 printed their statistics. When you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e mail me at [email protected] — that method, your grid will probably be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each serps 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 energetic, with 7,379 distinctive logins 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 personal grids.
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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.
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High 25 grids by energetic customers
In relation to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new buddies 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 clients. 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 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 4,046 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,498 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,190 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,058 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,011 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,497 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,092 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,042 energetic customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,020 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 994 energetic customers
- Astralia: 867 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 861 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 822 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 672 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 605 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 595 energetic customers
- NakedWorldz: 576 energetic customers
- SunEden Resort: 553 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 514 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 494 energetic customers
- Kitely: 462 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 452 energetic customers
- Jungle Friends Grid: 434 energetic customers
- New Life Italy: 434 energetic customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at present 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 so far.
As you'll be able to 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 stage for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material obtainable 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 realize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e 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 experiences.
Generally, a grid modifications its login URI or web site deal with — if that’s the case, e 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, each time obtainable, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests each time attainable.
Many faculty, 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 reputation. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which 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
Have you learnt of every other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E mail me at [email protected].
