All of the OpenSim stats had been up this month, as each land space, energetic 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 normal area equivalents, energetic customers had been up by greater than 600 — and the grids reported over 4,100 new registrations.
Energetic person are the overall 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 optimistic 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 Community Conference grid misplaced almost 300 actives as a result of the grid hosted an annual convention the month earlier than, and that visitors is now gone.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,670 public grids, of which 300 had been energetic this month and 246 printed 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 approach, your grid shall be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each search engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 35,873 normal area equivalents, with a achieve of greater than 250 new areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was probably the most energetic, with 7,932 distinctive guests over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embrace a lot of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model OpenSim, since these are usually personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source, digital world platform, that’s just like Second Life and permits folks with no technical abilities to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical abilities 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 another distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
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.
Discovery Grid leaves OpenSim for brand new digital world platform
Discovery Grid continues to be within the strategy of shutting down, however a couple of individuals are nonetheless visiting the grid, in all probability as a part of getting all their stuff migrated.
You can read more about it here.
Hypergrid Enterprise now on BlueSky
And we now have a BlueSky account: @HypergridBusiness.
Listed below are a couple of folks to observe:
You can see everyone HGB is following here.
Go away a word within the feedback in case you have a BlueSky account and need folks to have the ability to observe you, or if you realize of a grid that does.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now out there
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 here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
With regards to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new mates 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: 7,932 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 4,743 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,512 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,277 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,253 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,068 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,531 energetic customers
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,451 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 1,041 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 998 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 922 energetic customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 915 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 871 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 825 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 811 energetic customers
- NakedWorldz: 797 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 689 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 570 energetic customers
- Craft World: 556 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 546 energetic customers
- Astralia: 541 energetic customers
- Gentle Fire Grid: 512 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 495 energetic customers
- Vivo Sim: 478 energetic customers
- Kitely: 456 energetic customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 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 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.
Final month, the numbers went down slightly bit.
“Sadly a couple of shops had been disabled as a result of their house owners handed away a very long time in the past and we misplaced the power to switch their gross sales earnings to them,” Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner instructed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Usually, we don’t do that as folks’s subsequent of kin take over their accounts and shut them down themselves, or preserve these accounts energetic and replace the PayPal payout tackle to be able 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 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
The next grids had been added to our database this month: BloodMoon, Doghouse, Gaming Friends, Life Grid, Medieval Fantasy, New Horizon, SpaceGrid, The Hub Grid, and Xenolandia.
If you realize 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, Virtual Gay Pride, and Virtual Grid.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future studies.
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.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this checklist are, each time out there, by way of normal area equivalents. Energetic person 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 may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way 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
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 6,215 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,477 areas
- CandM World: 2,154 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,168 areas
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 areas
- GBG World: 959 areas
- Virtual 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
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Neverworld: 356 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Kater and Friends: 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
Are you aware of another grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
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