OpenSim users increase, but land area decreases due to OSgrid cleanup – Hypergrid Business
OpenSim’s public grid got 3,151. This month, 15 grids reported an increase of more than 100 active users.
However, both the land area and the number of registered users were towns.
Most of the land area loss is due to the major layoff of OSgrid. Grid reported a decline of more than 800,000 standard local equivalents. Most of this was due to the discontinuation of the Geographic Simulation project, but there were also losses in other areas due to database cleanups.
OSgrid allows anyone to connect regions, even people running regions on home computers that aren’t always running. To prevent someone else from taking the region’s map location whenever the region owner’s computer is turned off, OSgrid maintains a map reservation. If the location owner has not used the spot for some time, the spot will be considered abandoned, reservations will be cancelled, and the location will no longer be counted in grid statistics. At least until the next time a region owner connects to the grid and selects a new map location.
If not, the size of the grid has been increased. Thirty-nine grids reported an increase in the number of areas, 26 grids reported a decrease, and 129 grids reported no change in land area.
And the decline in registered users is because the OpenSimulator Community Conference Grid did not report statistics this month. There were 2,646 registered users last month.
Conclusion? OpenSim’s public grid has been reported. 148,135 There were 14,636 fewer standard local equivalents this month than last month. Grid reported 493,734 registered users, down 205 and down 48,018. Active users increased by 3,151.
The following grids were added to the database this month: Homelandz, Kara Islands Estate, Paralax Life, Russian Grid, Spartans Keep, Virtual Travelers, Willow Lake, and XTAL.
This month, seven grids were marked as down: Alpha Grid, Bridger, Ghost Area, Joe’s Place, Lost World, Meta Worldrix, and U4ria Grid.
Our statistics do not include most grids running on DreamGrid, a free and easy-to-use version of OpenSim. Because these grids tend to be private grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source virtual world platform, similar to Second Life, that allows non-technical people to quickly and inexpensively create virtual worlds and teleport to other virtual worlds. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on a server for free using DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for the more technically minded, or another distribution, while commercial hosting starts at less than $5 per region.
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Top 25 grids by active users
For general purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is that the more crowded the better. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. Sellers looking to sell content go to the grid with the most potential customers. Event organizers looking for the largest audience – you get the idea.
The top 25 most popular grids this month:
The top 25 most popular grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 11,896 active users
- OSgrid: 4,122 active users
- GBG World: 2,415 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,221 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,189 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,686 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,547 active users
- Groovy Verse: 1,383 active users
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,317 active users
- Neverworld: 1,042 active users
- Sanctum Astra: 966 active users
- AvatarLife: 918 active users
- Trianon World: 914 active users
- Craft World: 869 active users
- Littlefield: 804 active users
- Party Target Grid: 758 active users
- AviWorlds: 741 active users
- BloodMoon: 736 active users
- New Life Italia: 713 active users
- Gentle Fire Grid: 526 active users
- Astralia: 487 active users
- SpaceGrid: 481 active users
- Eureka World: 480 active users
- Vivo Sim: 428 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 426 active users
Online marketplace for OpenSim content
According to Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner, there are currently 21,183 product listings on the Kitely Market, containing 41,964 product variants, of which 36,683 are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 673 OpenSim grids to date.
Historically, all of the growth in the Kitely market has come from exportable content. This means that shoppers can deliver purchased items directly to their avatar’s inventory in other grids and travel to other grids with their content.
In the early days of OpenSim, many creators considered it a security risk and non-exportable content dominated. However, creators quickly realized that most of Copybot’s content actually came from Second Life, where all of it was non-exportable. And copybot tools and content thieves typically don’t check item permissions before committing the theft. Instead, allowing people to purchase exported content legally, conveniently, and at a reasonable price would completely destroy the copybot economy, leaving only a handful of freebie stores that are not yet aware of their existence and are demolished.
Another source of legal content for OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s products and those of other creators who make their products available for free under Creative Commons and similar licenses. Many official free stores in OpenSim Grid offer these products.
This is similar to how Netflix and other low-cost and free streaming services have dramatically reduced online movie piracy.
Kitely Market is the largest collection of commercial legal content available on OpenSim. You can access both hypergrid-enabled grids and closed private grids. Instructions on how to configure Kitely Market for a closed grid are available here.
Top 40 grids by land area
All region numbers in this list are based on standard regions whenever possible. Active user counts include Hypergrid visitors whenever possible.
There were a total of 256 active grids this month, of which 205 had published statistics. We are currently tracking a total of 2,596 grids.
Many schools, companies or private grids do not make their numbers public.
The raw data for this month’s report is available here. A list of all active grids is here. Below is a list of all HyperGrid supported grids and their HyperGrid addresses, sorted by popularity. This is very useful when creating hyperports.
You can view all past OpenSim statistics, including opinion polls, dating back to 2009 here.
- Wolf Territory Grid: 33,497 locations
- OSgrid: 23,956 regions
- Kitely: 17,840 locations
- ZetaWorlds: 17,001 locations
- Groovy Verse: 14,889 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 11,288 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,186 locations
- Neverworld: 2,632 locations
- GBG World: 1,929 locations
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 locations
- Tag grid: 1,545 locations
- Friends Grid: 1,417 locations
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 locations
- Subversion space: 1,065 regions
- Craft World: 950 locations
- Virtual world grid: 910 regions
- AviWorlds: 809 locations
- Exotic Reality: 733 locations
- Kinky Haven: 689 locations
- AvatarLife: 636 locations
- New Life Italy: 591 locations
- Virtual World Zones: 558 locations
- Littlefield: 533 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 433 locations
- Furry World: 358 locations
- BloodMoon: 320 locations
- EdMondo: 310 locations
- Coconut Migration: 247 locations
- Open virtual world: 241 locations
- Oligrid: 214 regions
- MisFitz grid: 213 regions
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 199 regions
- Japan Open Grid: 199 regions
- Adreans-World: 171 locations
- Cater & Friends: 164 locations
- Maze of the Mind: 154 locations
- I Love You Grid: 150 regions
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- Utopia Skye: 139 locations
- Logic Camp: 136 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in the database? Please send me an email. (email protected).
