OpenSim’s land space and energetic customers each decreased this week, largely on account of an OSgrid outage lasting greater than two weeks.
Since OSgrid has been on-line previously month, it’s nonetheless included on this stats report.
The general public metaverse misplaced the equal of 4,116 standard-sized areas this month, and 370 energetic customers for a brand new whole of 145,420 areas and 48,006 actives.
As well as, Littlefield, which had greater than 400 areas and over 600 actives final month, didn’t report any statistics this month and, as of its writing, the web site is down, there have been no updates to its Twitter page since early 2025, and its Faccebook page says “content material unavailable.”
The whole variety of registered customers went up nonetheless, by greater than 7,000, largely on account of the truth that EdMondo — an academic grid that has over 10,000 registered customers — was again up. It was down in Might.
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Ay Island, Flotsam, Kirmes Creations, Lux Serenity, MK3, OpenSim Network, and SkyeLand.
The next 12 grids have been suspended this month: Alterlifes, Austria Grid, CandorsRPWorld, Fresh MetaVerse Retro, Life RPG World, Nekolution, Ocean Grid, Serenity, Sublimit Metaverse, Tedesco Sim’s, Vivec, and XTAL.
Our stats don’t embody a lot of the grids operating on DreamGrid, a free, easy-to-use model 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 free of charge 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.
A listing of OpenSim hosting providers is here. Should you supply area leases and should not on this checklist, e mail me!
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High 25 grids by energetic customers
In the case of general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals seeking to make new pals search for grids that have already got essentially the most customers. Retailers seeking to promote content material will go to the grids with essentially the most potential clients. Occasion organizers on the lookout for the largest viewers — you get the concept.
High 25 hottest grids this month:
- Wolf Territories Grid: 12,855 energetic customers
- OSgrid: 3,180 energetic customers
- GBG World: 2,481 energetic customers
- Alternate Metaverse: 2,247 energetic customers
- DigiWorldz: 1,971 energetic customers
- Darkheart’s Playground: 1,529 energetic customers
- Groovy Verse: 1,509 energetic customers
- Cave Grid: 1,247 energetic customers
- Sciattisi Grid: 1,134 energetic customers
- Neverworld: 1,126 energetic customers
- Sanctum Astra: 936 energetic customers
- New Life Italy: 905 energetic customers
- Trianon World: 899 energetic customers
- AvatarLife: 824 energetic customers
- Craft World: 778 energetic customers
- BloodMoon: 723 energetic customers
- AviWorlds: 719 energetic customers
- Party Destination Grid: 719 energetic customers
- Friends Grid: 606 energetic customers
- Free Life: 519 energetic customers
- SpaceGrid: 503 energetic customers
- Eureka World: 446 energetic customers
- ZetaWorlds: 444 energetic customers
- Astralia: 425 energetic customers
- MK3: 395 energetic customers
On-line marketplaces for OpenSim content material
As of Might, there are 21,960 product listings in Kitely Market, containing 42,792 product variations, of which 37,485 are exportable, in response to Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner.
“Given OSgrid’s present downtime, I’d prefer to remind individuals who purchased gadgets in Kitely Market and had them delivered to their OSgrid avatars that they’ll have these orders redelivered to their Kitely avatar,” Tochner advised Hypergrid Enterprise. “Kitely gives a dependable dwelling for folks and allows consumers from Kitely Market to regain entry to their misplaced purchases if their grid shuts down.”
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 679 OpenSim grids so far.
Traditionally, all of the Kitely Market development has been in exportable content material. Which means that consumers can have their purchases delivered on to avatar inventories on different grids, and that they’ll journey to different grids with the content material.
Within the early days of OpenSim, many creators thought of this to be a safety threat, and non-exportable content material dominated. However creators rapidly realized that the majority copybotted content material really comes from Second Life, the place every part is non-exportable. And, usually, copybot instruments and content material thieves don’t trouble to verify merchandise permissions earlier than committing their thefts. As a substitute, permitting folks to buy exported content material legally, conveniently, and at affordable costs destroys the copybot financial system solely, leaving solely a handful of freebie shops on grids that haven’t but seen that they exist and brought them down.
One other supply of professional content material on OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s merchandise, and people of different creators that give them away free of charge beneath Inventive Commons and related licenses. Many official freebie shops on OpenSim grids supply these merchandise.
That is just like how Netflix and different low-cost and free streaming companies dramatically lowered on-line film piracy.
The Kitely Market is the most important assortment of business authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The instructions for how to configure the Kitely Market for closed grids are here.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this checklist are, each time accessible, when it comes to normal area equivalents. Lively person counts embody hypergrid guests each time attainable.
There have been a complete of 314 energetic grids this month, 241 of which revealed statistics. I’m presently monitoring a complete of two,143 grids.
Many college, 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 in case you are making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historical OpenSim statistics here, together with polls and surveys, courting all the way in which again to 2009.
- Wolf Territories Grid: 33,856 areas
- OSgrid: 21,088 areas
- Kitely: 17,730 areas
- ZetaWorlds: 16,954 areas
- Groovy Verse: 13,986 areas
- Alternate Metaverse: 11,883 areas
- Neverworld: 2,984 areas
- DigiWorldz: 2,520 areas
- GBG World: 1,929 areas
- Discovery Grid: 1,614 areas
- Tag Grid: 1,577 areas
- Friends Grid: 1,497 areas
- Sub-Version Space: 1,040 areas
- ArtDestiny: 1,024 areas
- Virtual Worlds Grid: 910 areas
- Craft World: 907 areas
- Exotic Realities: 759 areas
- Kinky Haven: 705 areas
- AviWorlds: 646 areas
- New Life Italy: 636 areas
- AvatarLife: 632 areas
- Virtual Worlds Zone: 562 areas
- Darkheart’s Playground: 424 areas
- Furry World: 358 areas
- BloodMoon: 313 areas
- EdMondo: 310 areas
- Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
- Open Virtual Worlds: 241 areas
- MisFitz Grid: 210 areas
- Japan Open Grid: 201 areas
- Funny Rides: 193 areas
- Sense Limits: 185 areas
- Spartans Keep: 180 areas
- Maze of The Mind: 174 areas
- I Love You Grid: 172 areas
- Kater and Friends: 171 areas
- Dynamic Worldz: 171 areas
- Adreans-World: 165 areas
- Seconds: 161 areas
- Logicamp: 142 areas
Are you aware of another grids which are open to the general public however that I don’t have in my database? E-mail me at [email protected].
