The entire land space on OpenSim’s public grids reached the equal of 131,511 normal areas this month, an all-time excessive, on a rise of greater than 1,000 normal areas in comparison with final month. Nonetheless, the entire variety of energetic customers went down by over 3,500.
A part of the lower was attributable to the truth that the OpenSim Neighborhood Convention was final month, driving up these numbers. A couple of grids additionally did not report stats this month, or had outages, or closed, however nothing main — for essentially the most half, the lower was attributable to decrease numbers throughout the board, probably as a result of winter holidays.
Scaling again for 2024
You would possibly discover that this text is considerably shorter than earlier’ months. I’m scaling again my OpenSim protection this yr to make extra time for different tasks. When you’ve got a press launch, you may ship it to me, however the nearer it’s to publishable format, the faster I’ll be capable to submit it on the location.
I’m now monitoring a complete of two,653 public grids, of which 334 are energetic and 258 printed their statistics this month. When you’ve got 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.

Our stats don’t embrace most of the grids operating on DreamGrid which is a distribution of OpenSim since these are usually non-public grids.
OpenSim is a free open-source, digital world platform, that’s just like Second Life and permits folks with no technical expertise to rapidly and cheaply create digital worlds and teleport to different digital worlds. These with technical expertise 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 every other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
A listing of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the advisable Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material to your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we can be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You may subscribe right here or fill out the shape under.
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High 25 grids by energetic customers
Relating to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new buddies search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the most important viewers — you get the thought.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
OSgrid: 5,155 energetic customers
Wolf Territories Grid: 4,715 energetic customers
DigiWorldz: 2,196 energetic customers
GBG World: 2,081 energetic customers
Alternate Metaverse: 1,837 energetic customers
WaterSplash: 1,354 energetic customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 1,342 energetic customers
Moonrose: 1,138 energetic customers
Littlefield: 1,036 energetic customers
Trianon World: 917 energetic customers
AviWorlds: 897 energetic customers
Neverworld: 887 energetic customers
Social gathering Vacation spot Grid: 804 energetic customers
Craft World: 685 energetic customers
Eureka World: 683 energetic customers
Astralia: 657 energetic customers
Jungle Mates Grid: 621 energetic customers
Kitely: 611 energetic customers
German World Grid: 605 energetic customers
AvatarLife: 577 energetic customers
Herederos Grid: 571 energetic customers
Vivo Sim: 547 energetic customers
Vida Dupla: 534 energetic customers
ProxyNet: 469 energetic customers
ZetaWorlds: 460 energetic customers
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, at any time when out there, by way of normal area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests at any time when potential.
Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked knowledge for this month’s report is right here. A listing of all energetic grids is right here. And here’s a listing of all of the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by reputation. 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.
Wolf Territories Grid: 28,960 areas
OSgrid: 25,345 areas
Kitely: 18,262 areas
ZetaWorlds: 11,723 areas
Alternate Metaverse: 10,071 areas
Groovy Verse: 6,422 areas
Discovery Grid: 5,128 areas
DigiWorldz: 3,563 areas
German World Grid: 2,178 areas
Tag Grid: 1,480 areas
Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
GBG World: 954 areas
Digital Worlds Grid: 916 areas
ArtDestiny: 900 areas
third Rock Grid: 872 areas
Mates Grid: 816 areas
AviWorlds: 811 areas
Kinky Haven: 653 areas
CandM World: 628 areas
Littlefield: 514 areas
AvatarLife: 500 areas
GorGrid: 430 areas
DreamNation: 393 areas
Craft World: 388 areas
Furry World: 372 areas
Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
EdMondo: 298 areas
Neverworld: 293 areas
Open Digital Worlds: 241 areas
Japan Open Grid: 194 areas
Counter Earth: 182 areas
Adreans-World: 173 areas
Kater and Mates: 160 areas
MisFitz Grid: 157 areas
Outworldz: 150 areas
German World: 144 areas
https://canadiangrid.ca/: 144 areas
GerGrid: 140 areas
OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
Galactic Digital: 127 areas
Have you learnt of every other grids which can be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? E-mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.