Both land area and active users in OpenSim increased this month. Perhaps it’s because people are spending more time indoors in warm conditions.
But who knows why people actually do what they do?
Anyway, I’m currently tracking a total of 2,6617 public power grids, of which 290 were active this month and 231 have published statistics. If you have a statistics page that you do not want to track, please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com. The grid will then be mentioned in this report each month to provide additional visibility to both search engines and users.
This month, OSgrid was the largest grid by land area, with 35,614 equivalent standard territories and an increase of over 2,700 new territories, while the Wolf Territories Grid was the most active, with 7,737 unique visitors over the past 30 days.
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 their servers for free using DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for the more technically minded, or another distribution, with commercial hosting starting at less than $5 per region. It works.
A list of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here and learn where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.
Discovery Grid is leaving OpenSim for a new virtual world platform.
The big news today is that Discovery Grid is closing. The plan is to reopen it on the O3DE platform, which Amazon created and then donated to the open source community.
You can read more details here.
Now experience hypergrid business at BlueSky
You now have a BlueSky account called @HypergridBusiness.
Others to follow include:
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If you have a BlueSky account and would like people to be able to follow you, or know of a grid that does so, please leave a note in the comments.
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Immediately after the statistical report comes out on the 15th of each month, we will send out a newsletter containing all the OpenSim news from the previous month. You can subscribe here or fill out the form below.
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:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,737 active users
- OSgrid: 4,262 active users
- GBG World: 2,548 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,357 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,192 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,140 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,633 active users
- Trianon World: 1,142 active users
- AviWorlds: 1,073 active users
- Neverworld: 1,065 active users
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,018 active users
- Sciattisi Grid: 830 active users
- Party destination grid: 826 active users
- Littlefield: 761 active users
- Craft World: 717 active users
- AvatarLife: 656 active users
- Gentle Fire Grid: 621 active users
- Eureka World: 615 active users
- Groovy Verse: 613 active users
- Herederos Grid: 582 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 529 active users
- NakedWorldz: 512 active users
- Kitely: 511 active users
- Astralia: 484 active users
- Kishaki: 455 active users
Online marketplace for OpenSim content
Currently, Kitely Market has 20,998 product listings with 41,138 product variants, of which 35,902 are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 634 OpenSim grids to date.
As you can see in the chart above, almost all of Kitely Market’s growth has come from content that can be exported to other grids (green area in the graph). The red zone for non-exportable content has remained at the same level for the past eight years.
Last month, the numbers dropped slightly.
“Unfortunately, several of our stores have ceased operations because their owners passed away a long time ago, leaving us unable to transfer sales revenue to them,” said Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner. Hypergrid business. “In most cases, we don’t do this because the next of kin will take over the account and either close it themselves or update their PayPal payment address to keep the account active and allow the store’s earnings to be transferred to them. .”
This is a reminder to all of us to prepare our online accounts, especially those that generate revenue.
Kitely Market is the largest collection of 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.
new grid
No new grids have been added to the database in the last 30 days.
If you know of a missing public grid, please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
hanging grid
Ten grids were listed as out of service this month: Alterlifes, Bernicia, Dominator, DowGrid, Goldor Grid, GorGrid, Nova Space, The City, Thrae, and Uzuri Virtual.
If it doesn’t come back online soon, future reports will show it as closed.
In some cases, Grid changes the login URI or website address. If this happens, please let us know by email so we can update our database.
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.
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.
All past OpenSim statistics, including opinion polls, dating back to 2009 can be found here.
- OSgrid: 35,614 regions
- Wolf Territory Grid: 30,053 locations
- Kitely: 18,156 locations
- ZetaWorlds: 13,029 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,712 locations
- Groovy Verse: 8,783 locations
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 6,173 regions
- DigiWorldz: 3,485 locations
- CandM World: 2,102 locations
- Discovery Grid: 1,618 locations
- Tag grid: 1,465 locations
- Friends Grid: 1,168 locations
- ArtDestiny: 1,156 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,104 locations
- GBG World: 961 locations
- Virtual world grid: 914 regions
- AviWorlds: 826 locations
- Craft World: 730 locations
- Kinky Haven: 685 locations
- AvatarLife: 595 locations
- Littlefield: 515 locations
- Neverworld: 374 locations
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Virtual World Zones: 364 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 346 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 300 locations
- Coconut Migration: 247 locations
- Open virtual world: 229 locations
- MisFitz grid: 215 locations
- Cater & Friends: 202 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 199 regions
- Counter Earth: 198 locations
- Adreans-World: 167 locations
- Utopia Skye: 156 locations
- XTalent: 145 locations
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- Logic Camp: 124 regions
- WestWorld Grid: 121 regions
- Magic Grid: 121 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in the database? Please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.