OpenSim still has over 900,000 region equivalents – Hypergrid Business

As a consequence of an OSgrid consumer modeling all of North America, the whole variety of standard-sized areas in OpenSim remains to be an astronomical 973,193.

Land is land, and loads of folks put up areas in OpenSim that no person ever makes use of as a result of land is so low cost — even free, in the event you run them by yourself computer systems — so on the one hand, I ought to depend these.

Then again, it’s going to make my bar chart completely inconceivable to learn! So I’m leaving these areas out, and counting OSgrid as if it solely had the 35,873 areas it did earlier this 12 months, earlier than the grand geography experiment, plus the 1,373 areas it added prior to now month — for a complete of 37,246 — as a substitute of the 864,410 it’s reporting now.

Anyway, that specific weirdness apart, OpenSim’s business grids reported 1,585 fewer commonplace area equivalents this month, 1,850 fewer registered customers, and three,320 fewer lively customers.

This is likely to be as a result of holidays, as a substitute of staying at dwelling individuals are going to Halloween events and planning Thanksgiving meals. Or it may very well be as a result of the whole variety of lively grids dropped from 257 to 249, and the variety of grids reporting stats dropped from 199 to 185.

Specifically, 11 grids had been marked as suspended this month: Eenhgrid, Gabngio, Gridworld, KittyBlue, Lonetree, Moonlighting Grid, Nitro, Paradise City, SiLi, Six Sides, and VR-ESC. Some grids closed for good, together with Canadian Grid.

OpenSim land space for November 2025 — not counting 800,000 or so areas continental mission areas on OSgrid. (Hypergrid Enterprise knowledge.)

By my depend, OpenSim now has the equal of 146,029 commonplace area equivalents, 42,924 lively customers, and 490,451 registered customers.

Our stats don’t embrace a lot 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 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 totally free utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or another distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.

An inventory of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Should you provide area leases and should not on this listing, e mail me!

You possibly can obtain the recommended Firestorm viewer here and discover out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here.

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High 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 associates 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 in search of the most important viewers — you get the concept.

High 25 hottest grids this month:

Wolf Territories Grid: 11,274 lively customers
OSgrid: 4,258 lively customers
Alternate Metaverse: 2,303 lively customers
DigiWorldz: 2,032 lively customers
Darkheart’s Playground: 1,542 lively customers
WaterSplash: 1,535 lively customers
Sciattisi Grid: 1,502 lively customers
Groovy Verse: 1,384 lively customers
AvatarLife: 1,036 lively customers
Neverworld: 916 lively customers
Trianon World: 855 lively customers
Craft World: 827 lively customers
Sanctum Astra: 826 lively customers
BloodMoon: 817 lively customers
Littlefield: 787 lively customers
Party Destination Grid: 786 lively customers
AviWorlds: 782 lively customers
Gentle Fire Grid: 548 lively customers
ZetaWorlds: 430 lively customers
Kitely: 394 lively customers
Herederos Grid: 386 lively customers
Astralia: 384 lively customers
Vivo Sim: 365 lively customers
Free Life: 361 lively customers
Jungle Friends Grid: 361 lively customers

Canadian Grid shuts down

Canadian Grid — to not be confused with the Nice Canadian Grid, which can also be closed — has shuttered its doorways as a result of an absence of curiosity, grid proprietor Chris Strachan informed Hypergrid Enterprise.

Usually, when a grid shuts down, there are folks worrying about methods to switch their areas, content material, avatars, and scheduled occasions to their new grids — and I write an article concerning the migration.

That’s not the case right here, for the reason that grid had none of these issues. Since we began monitoring the grid a 12 months in the past, it had a most of 13 guests a month, with one month the place it simply had three.

High 40 grids by land space

All area counts on this listing are, at any time when accessible, when it comes to commonplace area equivalents. Energetic consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests at any time when potential.

Many faculty, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.

The raw data for this month’s report is here. A list of all active grids is here. And here’s a list of all the hypergrid-enabled grids and their hypergrid addresses, sorted by recognition. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.

You possibly can see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the best way again to 2009.