The climate’s been getting cooler right here within the US the place I reside — some days, no less than. The climate’s been a bit wonky these days. And there have been different issues taking place within the nation that make me need 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 lively numbers went down — by greater than 2,700 customers.
Positive, Moonrose, which reported over 900 lively 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 lively 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 lively 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.
Perhaps 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 accordance with 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 presently offline, and has been since November 7, as a result of it’s storage cluster was working out of house.
“OSgrid has 17 years of knowledge 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 measurement — each asset seems to be larger than it really is.
To repair the issue, the grid’s storage must reconfigured, which entails shifting tens of millions of property and scrubbing out the phantom additional house to free it up once more. Doing this whereas persons are utilizing the grid would create a nasty consumer expertise, in order that they put it into upkeep mode in the course of the bulk of the work.
The unhealthy information is that they don’t understand how 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 had been lively this month and 232 revealed their statistics. When you’ve got a stats web page that we’re not monitoring, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com — that means, your grid will likely be talked about on this report each month, for added visibility with each search 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 probably the most lively, with 7,379 distinctive logins over the previous 30 days.
Our stats don’t embody many of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free easy-to-use model 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 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 without cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas business 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.
Hypergrid Enterprise publication is now out there
Each month on the fifteenth — proper after the stats report comes out — we will likely be sending out a publication with all of the OpenSim information from the earlier month. You possibly can subscribe right here or fill out the shape under.
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Prime 25 grids by lively customers
Relating to 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 probably the most customers. Retailers trying to promote content material will go to the grids with probably the most potential prospects. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the most important viewers — you get the concept.
Prime 25 hottest grids this month:
Wolf Territories Grid: 7,379 lively customers
OSgrid: 4,046 lively customers
GBG World: 2,498 lively customers
DigiWorldz: 2,190 lively customers
Alternate Metaverse: 2,058 lively customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 2,011 lively customers
WaterSplash: 1,497 lively customers
Trianon World: 1,092 lively customers
Neverworld: 1,042 lively customers
AviVerse AlterEgo: 1,020 lively customers
AviWorlds: 994 lively customers
Astralia: 867 lively customers
Littlefield: 861 lively customers
Celebration Vacation spot Grid: 822 lively customers
AvatarLife: 672 lively customers
Groovy Verse: 605 lively customers
Eureka World: 595 lively customers
NakedWorldz: 576 lively customers
SunEden Resort: 553 lively customers
Light Fireplace Grid: 514 lively customers
Herederos Grid: 494 lively customers
Kitely: 462 lively customers
ZetaWorlds: 452 lively customers
Jungle Associates Grid: 434 lively customers
New Life Italy: 434 lively customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
There are presently 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 so far.
As you may 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 biggest assortment of authorized content material out there in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for easy methods to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
Kitely additionally introduced help for PBR supplies and bigger textures earlier this month.
New grids
I added one new grid to my database this month: NakedWorldz.
If you already know of any public grid that we’re lacking, please electronic mail me at maria@hypergridbusiness.com.
Suspended grids
The next 9 grids had 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 adjustments its login URI or web site handle — if that’s the case, electronic mail me and let me know and I’ll replace my database.
Prime 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, each time out there, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embody 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 lively 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 if you’re making a hyperport.
You possibly can see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way 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.
