It’s the spooky season right here in the US, with Halloween arising quickly and all types of creepy scary stuff occurring, and cooler climate exterior. Additionally — we’ve received the elections. So, three causes for folks to not wish to depart their home and spend time in OpenSim as properly.
Or possibly there’s one more reason why energetic consumer numbers went up. Who is aware of? Regardless of the trigger, the general public OpenSim grids gained practically 3,000 new energetic customers in comparison with this time final month. Nonetheless, with grid outages and stats adjustments, complete registered customers dropped barely — and land space went down by the equal of 24,000 customary areas.
However the drop in land space is well defined. Simation Grid, which reported 25,408 areas final month is now right down to 1,024. Simation is a tiny grid — properly, not in measurement, however in customers — with simply 3 actives this month. So the land space was almost certainly a check of server capability. That occurs. Folks attempt to see what number of areas they will cram right into a server, mess around with it for some time, then finally shut it down. After wall, why maintain servers operating for areas no person is utilizing?
We at the moment are monitoring a complete of two,675 public grids, of which a good 300 had been energetic this month and 232 revealed their statistics. If in case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that method, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 34,103 customary area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most energetic, with 6,950 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
As you may see from the chart above, the Simation areas created a spike in land space this summer season, however the land progress is now again to regular ranges.
Our stats don’t embrace many 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 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 many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing 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.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You’ll be able to subscribe here or fill out the shape under.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
In the case of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new pals 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 prospects. Occasion organizers in search of the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,122 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 4,910 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,435 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,206 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,186 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,980 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,593 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 1,081 energetic customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,020 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 965 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 963 energetic customers
- Astralia: 943 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 916 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 862 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 807 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 735 energetic customers
- SunEden Resort: 692 energetic customers
- Great Canadian Grid: 675 energetic customers
- Craft World: 673 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 597 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 566 energetic customers
- Kitely: 523 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 499 energetic customers
- OpenSim Fest: 432 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 427 energetic customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 21,048 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,164 product variations, 35,920 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 632 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 degree for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material out there 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.
New grids
I didn’t add any new grids to the database this month.
If of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 13 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Angel Souls, Free Life, Insight Concepts, New Life Italy, Nordlicht Grid, OB, Phantom Rose, Pineapple, Planet, ProxyNet, TinkerLand, Trans Sidera, and TUIS Open 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 handle — 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 record are, at any time when out there, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests at any time when doable.
Many college, 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 recognition. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You’ll be able to see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 34,973 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,566 areas
- Kitely: 18,165 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 13,023 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,513 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,459 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,501 areas
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,259 areas
- CandM World: 2,094 areas
- Discovery Grid: 2,056 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: 960 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 914 areas
- AviWorlds: 838 areas
- Craft World: 696 areas
- Kinky Haven: 677 areas
- AvatarLife: 597 areas
- Littlefield: 514 areas
- GorGrid: 429 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 336 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 312 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 270 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 196 areas
- Counter Earth: 196 areas
- Kater and Friends: 185 areas
- Adreans-World: 161 areas
- Utopia Skye: 145 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- XTalent: 140 areas
- Outworldz: 127 areas
Are you aware of some other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
