OpenSim lively customers are up by 1,039 this month, reaching a brand new all-time excessive of 48,234. The full land space additionally elevated, by 489 normal area equivalents.
Nonetheless, the full variety of registered customers on all the general public OpenSim grids fell by greater than 10,000 since Might. The most important cause for the drop? third Rock Grid is now formally closed, with a few of its communities moved to ZetaWorlds. Final month, third Rock Grid reported 13,615 registered customers, although it had solely 250 actives. third Rock was one of many oldest OpenSim grounds, based again in 2008, and collected quite a lot of person registrations over the previous decade and a half.
A number of different grids didn’t report their stats this month, together with CandM World, which was lively this month however confirmed no stats on its stats web page. The grid had over 500 actives in Might.
We are actually monitoring a complete of two,663 public grids, of which 309 are lively and 253 revealed their statistics this month. When you have a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that manner, your grid might be talked about on this report each month, for extra visibility with each serps and customers.
This month, OSgrid was the most important grid by land space, with 32,547 normal area equivalents, whereas Wolf Territories Grid was essentially the most lively, with 6,232 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.

Our stats don’t embrace many of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model 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 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 free of charge 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.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. Obtain the advisable Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material on your OpenSim world or area right here.
Hypergrid Enterprise e-newsletter is now obtainable
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we might be sending out a e-newsletter with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You’ll be able to subscribe right here or fill out the shape beneath.
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High 25 grids by lively customers
In the case of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Folks trying to make new pals 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 in search of the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
Wolf Territories Grid: 6,232 lively customers
OSgrid: 5,186 lively customers
GBG World: 2,239 lively customers
DigiWorldz: 2,156 lively customers
Alternate Metaverse: 2,025 lively customers
Vida Dupla: 1,750 lively customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 1,694 lively customers
WaterSplash: 1,650 lively customers
Neverworld: 1,101 lively customers
AviWorlds: 1,068 lively customers
Trianon World: 1,023 lively customers
Moonrose: 936 lively customers
AvatarLife: 930 lively customers
Littlefield: 899 lively customers
Occasion Vacation spot Grid: 839 lively customers
Astralia: 836 lively customers
Craft World: 791 lively customers
Virtualife: 666 lively customers
Virtualife: 664 lively customers
Kitely: 627 lively customers
ZetaWorlds: 596 lively customers
Eureka World: 583 lively customers
Groovy Verse: 514 lively customers
Herederos Grid: 511 lively customers
Digital Vista Metaverse: 507 lively customers
The most important change on this record was the addition of Digital Vista Metaverse, a brand new grid in our database, which had a powerful launch.
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are presently 20,793 product listings in Kitely Market containing 40,862 product variations, 35,648 of that are exportable.
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 624 OpenSim grids so far.


As you possibly can see within the above chart, almost 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 purple space, of non-exportable content material, has stayed degree for the previous eight years.
The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of authorized content material obtainable in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for learn how to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
Kitely has not too long ago doubled the efficiency of its areas whereas holding costs the identical.
New grids
The next grids had been added to our database this month: Woman’s Dreamworld and Digital Vista Metaverse.
If you understand of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 18 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Admeja, Bernicia, BigOne, Bubble Grid, EducaSim, Eleutherias, Golden Palace Gaming, KittyBlue, Mystic Bermuda, Nice Retreat, Resurgence, Royal Grid, Starfleet, The Crying Grid, Tropicana Grid, Twilight, Uzuri Digital, and VR Playground.
In the event that they don’t reappear on-line once more quickly, they are going to be marked as closed in future studies.
Generally, a grid modifications its login URI or web site deal with — if that’s the case, electronic 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, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Lively person counts embrace 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 lively grids is right here. And here’s a record 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’ll be able to see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
OSgrid: 32,547 areas
Wolf Territories Grid: 29,248 areas
Kitely: 18,077 areas
ZetaWorlds: 12,910 areas
Alternate Metaverse: 10,178 areas
Groovy Verse: 7,837 areas
DigiWorldz: 3,544 areas
Digital Vista Metaverse: 3,253 areas
Tag Grid: 1,464 areas
Shoalwater Bay: 1,072 areas
GBG World: 956 areas
Digital Worlds Grid: 915 areas
AviWorlds: 842 areas
Pals Grid: 816 areas
ArtDestiny: 784 areas
Kinky Haven: 669 areas
Craft World: 642 areas
AvatarLife: 603 areas
Littlefield: 514 areas
GorGrid: 430 areas
Furry World: 373 areas
Neverworld: 343 areas
DreamNation: 314 areas
Nemesis 3D: 305 areas
EdMondo: 300 areas
Open Digital Worlds: 229 areas
Japan Open Grid: 186 areas
Counter Earth: 186 areas
MisFitz Grid: 182 areas
Kater and Pals: 180 areas
Adreans-World: 173 areas
Darkheart’s Playground: 168 areas
GerGrid: 141 areas
OpenSim Fest: 140 areas
WestWorld Grid: 135 areas
Logicamp: 129 areas
Galactic Digital: 127 areas
Outworldz: 126 areas
XTalent: 124 areas
Utopia Skye: 116 areas
Have you learnt of every other grids which might be open to the general public however that we don’t have in our database? Electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.