Spooky season is upon us here in the United States. Halloween is coming soon, all kinds of creepy and scary things are happening and the weather is getting cooler outside. Also — we have elections. So, here are three reasons why people don’t want to leave home and spend time in OpenSim:
Or maybe there is another reason for the increase in active users. Who knows? Whatever the cause, the public OpenSim grid has gained nearly 3,000 new active users compared to this time last month. However, due to grid outages and statistical changes, the total number of registered users has decreased slightly and the land area has decreased by the equivalent of 24,000 standard areas.
However, the decline in land area is easily explained. Simation Grid, which reported 25,408 locations last month, is now down to 1,024. Simation is a small grid, not in terms of size but in terms of users, with only 3 active items this month. So the land area was probably a test of server capacity. That happens. People see how many regions they can cram into a server, play around with it for a while, and eventually shut it down. After the wall, why keep running servers in areas no one uses?
We are currently tracking a total of 2,675 public grids, of which 300 were active this month and 232 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 34,103 standard area equivalents, while Wolf Territories Grid was the most active with 6,950 unique logins in the past 30 days.
As you can see in the chart above, the Simation region experienced a surge in land area this summer, but land growth has now returned to normal levels.
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.
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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:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,122 active users
- OSgrid: 4,910 active users
- GBG World: 2,435 active users
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,206 active users
- DigiWorldz: 2,186 active users
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,980 active users
- WaterSplash: 1,593 active users
- AviWorlds: 1,081 active users
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,020 active users
- Neverworld: 965 active users
- Trianon World: 963 active users
- Astralia: 943 active users
- Moonrose: 916 active users
- Littlefield: 862 active users
- Party destination grid: 807 active users
- AvatarLife: 735 active users
- Sun Eden Resort: 692 active users
- Great Canadian Grid: 675 active users
- Craft World: 673 active users
- Groovy Verse: 597 active users
- Herederos Grid: 566 active users
- Kitely: 523 active users
- Gentle Fire Grid: 499 active users
- OpenSim Fest: 432 active users
- Eureka World: 427 active users
Online marketplace for OpenSim content
Currently, Kitely Market has 21,048 product listings with 41,164 product variants, of which 35,920 are available for export.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 632 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.
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
We haven’t added any new grids to the database this month.
If you know of a missing public grid, please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
hanging grid
This month, 13 grids were marked as suspended: Angel Souls, Free Life, Insight Concepts, New Life Italy, Nordlicht Grid, OB, Phantom Rose, Pineapple, Planet, ProxyNet, TinkerLand, Trans Sidera and TUIS Open Grid.
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: 34,973 regions
- Wolf Territory Grid: 29,566 locations
- Kitely: 18,165 locations
- ZetaWorlds: 13,023 locations
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,513 regions
- Groovy Verse: 8,459 locations
- DigiWorldz: 3,501 locations
- Virtual Vista Metaverse: 3,259 regions
- CandM World: 2,094 locations
- Discovery Grid: 2,056 locations
- Tag grid: 1,465 locations
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,104 locations
- Friends Grid: 1,040 locations
- Simulation grid: 1,024 regions
- ArtDestiny: 961 locations
- GBG World: 960 locations
- Virtual world grid: 914 regions
- AviWorlds: 838 locations
- Craft World: 696 locations
- Kinky Haven: 677 locations
- AvatarLife: 597 locations
- Littlefield: 514 locations
- GorGrid: 429 regions
- Furry World: 373 locations
- Virtual World Zones: 364 locations
- Neverworld: 336 locations
- Darkheart’s Playground: 312 locations
- Nemesis 3D: 305 locations
- EdMondo: 300 locations
- WestWorld Grid: 270 locations
- Open virtual world: 229 locations
- MisFitz grid: 213 regions
- Japan Open Grid: 196 regions
- Counter Earth: 196 locations
- Cater & Friends: 185 locations
- Adreans-World: 161 locations
- Utopia Skye: 145 locations
- GerGrid: 141 regions
- XTalent: 140 locations
- Outworlds: 127 locations
Do you know of any other grids that are available to the public but not in the database? Please email maria@hypergridbusiness.com.