OpenSim users, land area down on outages – Hypergrid Business

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 previously 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 page since early 2025, and its Faccebook page says “content material unavailable.”

The entire variety of registered customers went up nevertheless, 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 had been added to our database this month: Ay Island, Flotsam, Kirmes Creations, Lux Serenity, MK3, OpenSim Network, and SkyeLand.

The next 12 grids had been suspended this month: Alterlifes, Austria Grid, CandorsRPWorld, Fresh MetaVerse Retro, Life RPG World, Nekolution, Ocean Grid, Serenity, Sublimit Metaverse, Tedesco Sim’s, Vivec, and XTAL.

Our stats don’t embody many of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free, easy-to-use model of 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 expertise to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers without cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.

A listing of OpenSim hosting providers is here. In case you provide area leases and should not on this checklist, e mail me!

You may 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 lively customers

In relation to 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 most important viewers — you get the concept.

High 25 hottest grids this month:

1. Wolf Territories Grid: 12,855 lively customers
2. OSgrid: 3,180 lively customers
3. GBG World: 2,481 lively customers
4. Alternate Metaverse: 2,247 lively customers
5. DigiWorldz: 1,971 lively customers
6. Darkheart’s Playground: 1,529 lively customers
7. Groovy Verse: 1,509 lively customers
8. Cave Grid: 1,247 lively customers
9. Sciattisi Grid: 1,134 lively customers
10. Neverworld: 1,126 lively customers
11. Sanctum Astra: 936 lively customers
12. New Life Italy: 905 lively customers
13. Trianon World: 899 lively customers
14. AvatarLife: 824 lively customers
15. Craft World: 778 lively customers
16. BloodMoon: 723 lively customers
17. AviWorlds: 719 lively customers
18. Party Destination Grid: 719 lively customers
19. Friends Grid: 606 lively customers
20. Free Life: 519 lively customers
21. SpaceGrid: 503 lively customers
22. Eureka World: 446 lively customers
23. ZetaWorlds: 444 lively customers
24. Astralia: 425 lively customers
25. 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 keeping with Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner.

“Given OSgrid’s present downtime, I’d wish to remind individuals who purchased gadgets in Kitely Market and had them delivered to their OSgrid avatars that they will have these orders redelivered to their Kitely avatar,” Tochner advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Kitely gives a dependable house for individuals 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 up to now.

Traditionally, all of the Kitely Market progress has been in exportable content material. Which means that patrons can have their purchases delivered on to avatar inventories on different grids, and that they will journey to different grids with the content material.

Within the early days of OpenSim, many creators thought-about this to be a safety threat, and non-exportable content material dominated. However creators rapidly realized that the majority copybotted content material really comes from Second Life, the place every part is non-exportable. And, normally, copybot instruments and content material thieves don’t hassle to examine merchandise permissions earlier than committing their thefts. As a substitute, permitting individuals to buy exported content material legally, conveniently, and at cheap costs destroys the copybot economic system solely, leaving solely a handful of freebie shops on grids that haven’t but observed that they exist and brought them down.

One other supply of legit content material on OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s merchandise, and people of different creators that give them away without cost underneath Artistic Commons and related licenses. Many official freebie shops on OpenSim grids provide these merchandise.

That is just like how Netflix and different low-cost and free streaming companies dramatically diminished on-line film piracy.

The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of business 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.

High 40 grids by land space

All area counts on this checklist are, each time obtainable, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embody hypergrid guests each time doable.

There have been a complete of 314 lively grids this month, 241 of which revealed statistics.  I’m at present monitoring a complete of two,143 grids.

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 recognition. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.

You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics 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
• Friends Grid: 1,497 areas
• Sub-Version Space: 1,040 areas
• ArtDestiny: 1,024 areas
• Virtual Worlds Grid: 910 areas
• Craft World: 907 areas
• Exotic Realities: 759 areas
• Kinky Haven: 705 areas
• AviWorlds: 646 areas
• New Life Italy: 636 areas
• AvatarLife: 632 areas
• Virtual Worlds Zone: 562 areas
• Darkheart’s Playground: 424 areas
• Furry World: 358 areas
• BloodMoon: 313 areas
• EdMondo: 310 areas
• Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
• Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
• MisFitz Grid: 210 areas
• Japan Open Grid: 201 areas
• Funny Rides: 193 areas
• Sense Limits: 185 areas
• Spartans Keep: 180 areas
• Maze of The Mind: 174 areas
• I Love You Grid: 172 areas
• Kater and Friends: 171 areas
• Dynamic Worldz: 171 areas
• Adreans-World: 165 areas
• Seconds: 161 areas
• Logicamp: 142 areas

Have you learnt of every other grids which might be open to the general public however that I don’t have in my database? Electronic mail me at [email protected].

Hypergrid Enterprise editor and writer Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. Through the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and take a look at her newest movies on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Electronic mail her at [email protected]. Her first digital world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller checklist in its class. Her second novella, The Misplaced King of Krim, is out now. She can be the writer of MetaStellar, a brand new on-line journal of speculative fiction.

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