The entire land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 138,831 commonplace areas this month, an all-time excessive — and the fourth month in a row that OpenSim land space has damaged this file. That’s a rise of greater than 5,000 areas since final month.
The most important gainer by way of land space was OSgrid, which gained 2,655 new areas, taking the highest slot again from Wolf Territories Grid.
On the identical time, the variety of energetic customers hit 47,620, one other file, and a rise of greater than 2,000 actives in comparison with the earlier month. Right here, Wolf Territories maintained its management place after gaining 307 new energetic customers.
In the meantime, the entire variety of regionally registered customers in OpenSim went up by greater than 2,000, led by AvatarLife with 521 new registrations.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,657 public grids, of which 313 had been energetic, and 247 revealed their statistics this month. When you’ve got a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that approach, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each engines like google and customers.
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Nordlicht Grid and Royal Grid.
Additionally, I’m not sending out a month-to-month electronic mail blast reminding OpenSim grid house owners to ship me information and updates for this report. When you’ve got information, please electronic mail me earlier than the tenth of the month if you would like a brief merchandise included on this month-to-month wrap-up. For longer information, be happy to ship me press releases at any time.


Our stats don’t embrace lots of the grids working on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are typically non-public grids.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s much like Second Life and permits individuals with no technical expertise to shortly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise can run OpenSim worlds on their servers totally free utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the beneficial 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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High 25 grids by energetic customers
On the subject of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks seeking to make new associates 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 searching for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 5,578 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 5,250 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 2,168 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,112 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 1,996 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,680 energetic customers
- WaterSplash: 1,384 energetic customers
- Moonrose: 1,202 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 1,133 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 1,088 energetic customers
- Vida Dupla: 1,062 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,011 energetic customers
- Littlefield: 996 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 987 energetic customers
- Celebration Vacation spot Grid: 861 energetic customers
- Craft World: 780 energetic customers
- Astralia: 703 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 654 energetic customers
- Virtualife: 636 energetic customers
- Kitely: 612 energetic customers
- Herederos Grid: 600 energetic customers
- Resurgence: 590 energetic customers
- Buddies Grid: 583 energetic customers
- German World Grid: 567 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 547 energetic customers
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this checklist are, each time out there, by way of commonplace area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests each time potential.
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 checklist 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’ll be able to see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the way in which again to 2009.
- OSgrid: 29,800 areas
- Wolf Territories Grid: 28,544 areas
- Kitely: 18,151 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 11,748 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 10,208 areas
- Groovy Verse: 8,121 areas
- Discovery Grid: 5,178 areas
- DigiWorldz: 3,572 areas
- German World Grid: 2,476 areas
- CandM World: 1,595 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
- Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
- GBG World: 953 areas
- Digital Worlds Grid: 916 areas
- third Rock Grid: 872 areas
- AviWorlds: 859 areas
- Buddies Grid: 816 areas
- ArtDestiny: 784 areas
- Kinky Haven: 669 areas
- AvatarLife: 589 areas
- Littlefield: 516 areas
- GorGrid: 430 areas
- Tomi’s World: 400 areas
- Craft World: 390 areas
- Furry World: 373 areas
- DreamNation: 318 areas
- Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
- EdMondo: 300 areas
- Neverworld: 291 areas
- Open Digital Worlds: 241 areas
- Kater and Buddies: 187 areas
- Counter Earth: 187 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 184 areas
- Adreans-World: 173 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 172 areas
- WestWorld Grid: 149 areas
- GerGrid: 141 areas
- OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
- Outworldz: 127 areas
- Galactic Digital: 127 areas
Have you learnt of every other grids which are open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.