The climate’s been getting cooler right here within the US the place I dwell — some days, at the very least. The climate’s been a little bit wonky these days. And there have been different issues occurring within the nation that make me wish to spend much less time in the true world and extra time in a digital one. So it is smart that registered customers and land space each went up within the public OpenSim grids.
What’s extra shocking is that the overall energetic numbers went down — by greater than 2,700 customers.
Positive, Moonrose, which reported over 900 energetic customers final month, appears to be having web site points and didn’t publish its stats this month. As well as, Vida Dupla, which had 375 actives final month, didn’t report its energetic consumer numbers this month. And Nice Canadian Grid, which had over 600 actives final month, is now closed.
However a number of grids additionally reported vital drops in energetic consumer numbers. OSgrid reported a drop of greater than 800 actives in comparison with final month, Craft World noticed a drop of over 200, and 5 grids misplaced greater than 100 actives every.
So there’s one thing happening past only a grid closure and a few reporting points.
Possibly everybody went out partying for Halloween and spent much less time in-world? Or possibly different individuals just like the cooler climate and are having fun with the autumn leaves and brisk walks whereas carrying cozy sweaters?
Nope! In response to reader Paul Clevett, from Wolf Territories, OSgrid is down for upkeep. And I discovered the announcement. Thanks, Paul, for the heads up!
Apparently, OSgrid is at the moment offline, and has been since November 7, as a result of it’s storage cluster was operating out of area.
“OSgrid has 17 years of information which is approx a number of hundred million property,” the announcement mentioned. And it will get worse. The grid shops each the asset information and a redundant copy, however they’re not saved on the precise dimension — each asset seems to be larger than it really is.
To repair the issue, the grid’s storage must reconfigured, which includes transferring thousands and thousands of property and scrubbing out the phantom additional area to free it up once more. Doing this whereas persons are utilizing the grid would create a foul consumer expertise, so that they put it into upkeep mode in the course of the bulk of the work.
The dangerous information is that they don’t know the way lengthy it’s going to take. The excellent news is that they don’t anticipate any property to get misplaced.
Anyway, I’m now monitoring a complete of two,677 public grids, of which 295 have been energetic this month and 232 revealed their statistics. In case you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please e mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that manner, your grid can be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each engines like google and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the biggest grid by land space, with 32,867 customary area equivalents, though it misplaced greater than 2,000 areas, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most energetic, with 7,379 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embody many 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 much like Second Life and permits individuals with no technical abilities to shortly 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 industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the really helpful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material in your OpenSim world or area right here.
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Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we can be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
High 25 grids by energetic customers
In the case of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks seeking to make new mates search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 7,379 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 4,046 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,498 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,190 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,058 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 2,011 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,497 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,092 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,042 energetic customers
- AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,020 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 994 energetic customers
- Astralia: 867 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 861 energetic customers
- Celebration Vacation spot Grid: 822 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 672 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 605 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 595 energetic customers
- NakedWorldz: 576 energetic customers
- SunEden Resort: 553 energetic customers
- Mild Hearth Grid: 514 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 494 energetic customers
- Kitely: 462 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 452 energetic customers
- Jungle Associates Grid: 434 energetic customers
- New Life Italy: 434 energetic customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are at the moment 20,973 product listings in Kitely Market containing 41,105 product variations, 35,866 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 632 OpenSim grids to this point.
As you may see within the above chart, practically 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 pink space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed stage for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, personal grids. The directions for learn how to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
Kitely additionally introduced assist for PBR supplies and bigger textures earlier this month.
New grids
I added one new grid to my database this month: NakedWorldz.
If you recognize of any public grid that we’re lacking, please e mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 9 grids have been suspended this month: Angel Grid, Ares World, Binders World, Cajun Grid, DreamNation, Ghost Space, Homeland, KubwasWelt, and Nosso Lar.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future stories.
Typically, a grid modifications 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 record are, every time obtainable, by way of customary area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embody hypergrid guests every time doable.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked information for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all energetic grids is right here. And here’s a record of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful in case you are making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 32,867 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 29,987 areas
- Kitely: 18,126 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 13,032 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,437 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,756 areas
- Digital Vista Metaverse: 6,217 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,515 areas
- CandM World: 2,094 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,714 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,465 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,104 areas
- Associates Grid: 1,040 areas
- Simation Grid: 1,024 areas
- ArtDestiny: 961 areas
- GBG World: 961 areas
- Digital Worlds Grid: 914 areas
- AviWorlds: 818 areas
- Craft World: 711 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 597 areas
- Littlefield: 478 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- Neverworld: 372 areas
- Digital Worlds Zone: 364 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 323 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Open Digital Worlds: 229 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 213 areas
- Counter Earth: 199 areas
- Kater and Associates: 198 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 197 areas
- Adreans-World: 161 areas
- Utopia Skye: 156 areas
- XTalent: 142 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 126 areas
- Outworldz: 126 areas
- Logicamp: 120 areas
Have you learnt 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.
