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It’s time for this 12 months’s OpenSim grid survey — and with OSgrid going offline on the finish of the 12 months, lots of people are going to be wanting on the outcomes.
OSgrid, the oldest grid in OpenSim and the second hottest, with greater than 4,000 lively customers as of my October stats report, announced earlier this month that it might shut down at midnight on December 31.
The grid has since mentioned that it will come back in 2027 after a reset. However residents’ full inventories gained’t carry over, and areas operating on residents’ personal computer systems will now not be capable of join, OSgrid treasurer Lawrence Roberts advised Hypergrid Enterprise.
Which means many OSgrid residents are actually making an attempt to determine the place to go as an alternative — or whether or not to attend.
So this 12 months, your critiques of your property grid’s content material, group, help, and expertise will assist them, and anyone else in search of a brand new house on the hypergrid.
There are a whole bunch of lively grids in OpenSim, and the extra choices you give folks, the much less seemingly they’re to take the survey. So I’m limiting the record of prompt choices to the highest ten hottest grids, as of my October stats report. That record consists of OSgrid, because the grid remains to be up and operating and its residents comprehend it higher than anybody.
However anybody may write of their house grid. In earlier years, there was normally a write-in grid that had glorious critiques and got here out at or close to the highest of the outcomes. Last year, two write-in grids received the best general scores.
It is a Google survey, so there are mechanisms to dam automated and spam submissions — and if a grid is discovered to be making an attempt to spam the survey, the entire grid can be banned. (Yup, this has occurred earlier than.)
So when you’re a grid proprietor, be at liberty to inform all of your residents to share their sincere overview of your grid. However don’t provide rewards in return for optimistic critiques, or arrange a bot to spam the survey.
The deadline for submissions is finish of day Wednesday, October 28, Pacific time. I’m planning to submit the outcomes earlier than the tip of the month.
The anonymized outcomes can be shared with grid homeowners on request, however no private info or e-mail addresses can be shared with anyone. You can see the results of our previous surveys here.
When you’re an OSgrid resident making an attempt to determine the place to go, right here’s where OSgrid refugees can find land — some of it free, and right here’s how to save your stuff before the grid goes offline.
If the survey isn’t arising within the type under, you can get to it directly here.
