The total land area of OpenSim’s public grid is: There were 131,511 standard regions this month, an increase of more than 1,000 from the previous month, an all-time high. However, the overall number of active users decreased by more than 3,500.
Part of the decline is due to the OpenSim Community Conference taking place last month, which boosted the numbers. Several grids also failed to report statistics this month, experienced outages or were shut down, but there were no major problems. In most cases, the overall decline in numbers was due to the winter holidays.
Reduction by 2024
You’ll notice that this article is considerably shorter than previous months. I’m planning to scale back my OpenSim coverage this year to have more time for other projects. If you have a press release, you can send it to me, but the closer it is to a publishable format, the quicker I can post it on the site.
I currently track a total of 2,653 public power grids, of which 334 are active and 258 have released statistics this month. 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.
Our statistics do not include many of the grids running on DreamGrid, the OpenSim distribution, as these 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’s possible.
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.
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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:
- OSgrid: 5,155 active users
- Wolf Territories Grid: 4,715 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,196 active users
- GBG World: 2,081 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,837 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,354 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,342 active users
- Moonrose: 1,138 active users
- Littlefield: 1,036 active users
- Trianon World: 917 active users
- AviWorlds: 897 active users
- Neverworld: 887 active users
- Party destination grid: 804 active users
- Craft World: 685 active users
- Eureka World: 683 active users
- Astralia: 657 active users
- Jungle Friends Grid: 621 active users
- Kitely: 611 active users
- German World Grid: 605 active users
- AvatarLife: 577 active users
- Herederos Grid: 571 active users
- Vivo Sim: 547 active users
- Secret Life: 534 active users
- ProxyNet: 469 active users
- ZetaWorlds: 460 active users
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.
- Wolf Territory Grid: 28,960 locations
- OSgrid: 25,345 regions
- Kitely: 18,262 locations
- Zeta World: 11,723 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,071 locations
- Groovy Verses: 6,422 locations
- Discovery Grid: 5,128 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,563 locations
- German World Grid: 2,178 regions
- Tag grid: 1,480 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 locations
- GBG World: 954 locations
- Virtual world grid: 916 regions
- ArtDestiny: 900 locations
- Third Rock Grid: 872 regions
- Friends Grid: 816 locations
- AviWorlds: 811 locations
- Kinky Haven: 653 locations
- CandM World: 628 locations
- Littlefield: 514 locations
- AvatarLife: 500 locations
- GorGrid: 430 regions
- Dream Nation: 393 locations
- Craft World: 388 locations
- Furry World: 372 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 298 locations
- Neverworld: 293 locations
- Open virtual world: 241 locations
- Japan Open Grid: 194 regions
- Counter Earth: 182 locations
- Adreans-World: 173 locations
- Cater & Friends: 160 locations
- MisFitz Grid: 157 locations
- Outworldz: 150 locations
- Germany World: 144 locations
- https://canadiangrid.ca/: 144 regions
- GerGrid: 140 locations
- OpenSim Fest: 140 locations
- Galactic virtual: 127 regions
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in the database? Please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.