OpenSim’s land space and energetic customers each decreased this week, principally as a result of an OSgrid outage lasting greater than two weeks.
Since OSgrid has been on-line up to now 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 web page since early 2025, and its Faccebook web page says “content material unavailable.”
The full variety of registered customers went up nonetheless, by greater than 7,000, principally as a result of the truth that EdMondo — an academic grid that has over 10,000 registered customers — was again up. It was down in Could.
The next grids have been added to our database this month: Ay Island, Flotsam, Kirmes Creations, Lux Serenity, MK3, OpenSim Community, and SkyeLand.
The next 12 grids have been suspended this month: Alterlifes, Austria Grid, CandorsRPWorld, Recent MetaVerse Retro, Life RPG World, Nekolution, Ocean Grid, Serenity, Sublimit Metaverse, Tedesco Sim’s, Vivec, and XTAL.
Our stats don’t embrace a lot of the grids working on DreamGrid, a free, easy-to-use model of OpenSim, since these are typically personal grids.
OpenSim is a free, open-source digital world platform that’s much like Second Life and permits folks 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 at no cost utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for many who are extra technically inclined, or some other distribution, whereas business internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. In the event you provide area leases and should not on this listing, e mail me!
You may obtain the really useful Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material on your OpenSim world or area right here.
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High 25 grids by energetic customers
With regards to general-purpose social grids, particularly closed grids, the rule of thumb is the busier the higher. Individuals trying to make new buddies 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 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
Get together Vacation spot Grid: 719 energetic customers
Buddies 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 Could, 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 wish to remind individuals who purchased objects in Kitely Market and had them delivered to their OSgrid avatars that they’ll have these orders redelivered to their Kitely avatar,” Tochner informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Kitely supplies a dependable residence 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 up to now.
Traditionally, all of the Kitely Market progress 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-about this to be a safety danger, and non-exportable content material dominated. However creators shortly realized that the majority copybotted content material truly comes from Second Life, the place all the things is non-exportable. And, basically, copybot instruments and content material thieves don’t trouble to test merchandise permissions earlier than committing their thefts. As a substitute, permitting folks to buy exported content material legally, conveniently, and at cheap costs destroys the copybot economic system completely, 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 respectable content material on OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s merchandise, and people of different creators that give them away at no cost beneath Artistic Commons and related licenses. Many official freebie shops on OpenSim grids provide these merchandise.
That is much like how Netflix and different low-cost and free streaming providers dramatically diminished 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, personal grids. The directions for how one can configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, every time accessible, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embrace hypergrid guests every time potential.
There have been a complete of 314 energetic grids this month, 241 of which printed statistics. I’m presently monitoring a complete of two,143 grids.
Many college, firm, or private grids don’t publish their numbers.
The uncooked knowledge for this month’s report is right here. An inventory of all energetic grids is right here. And here’s a listing of all of 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 historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship 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
Buddies Grid: 1,497 areas
Sub-Model Area: 1,040 areas
ArtDestiny: 1,024 areas
Digital Worlds Grid: 910 areas
Craft World: 907 areas
Unique Realities: 759 areas
Kinky Haven: 705 areas
AviWorlds: 646 areas
New Life Italy: 636 areas
AvatarLife: 632 areas
Digital Worlds Zone: 562 areas
Darkheart’s Playground: 424 areas
Furry World: 358 areas
BloodMoon: 313 areas
EdMondo: 310 areas
Migrating Coconuts: 247 areas
Open Digital Worlds: 241 areas
MisFitz Grid: 210 areas
Japan Open Grid: 201 areas
Humorous Rides: 193 areas
Sense Limits: 185 areas
Spartans Preserve: 180 areas
Maze of The Thoughts: 174 areas
I Love You Grid: 172 areas
Kater and Buddies: 171 areas
Dynamic Worldz: 171 areas
Adreans-World: 165 areas
Seconds: 161 areas
Logicamp: 142 areas
Have you learnt of some other grids which can be open to the general public however that I don’t have in my database? E mail me at [email protected].
