Today, non-InWorldz closed grids total just 1,526 active users, or about 4 percent of OpenSim’s active user base. In fact, many closed grids have either been moving to the hypergrid, losing users, or shutting down over the past few years. OSgrid and Kitely both allow their users to teleport to other grids. InWorldz is a closed commercial grid, meaning that users cannot teleport to other grids, go shopping on other grids, attend events there, join hypergrid groups, or send messages to friends on other grids. This month, it reported 1,551 new registrations, second only to Kitely with its 2,018 new users. InWorldz is also a grid that brings in a lot of new users. InWorldz also has the highest number of registered users of any grid, at 164,806, with OSgrid in second place at 115,300. But the next-most-popular grid, OSgrid, still has a long ways to go before it catches up. InWorldz’ share of all active OpenSim users has fallen from a high of 40 percent in the summer of 2012 to its current low of just 15 percent. The other biggest change on this list was that InWorldz lost 210 active users, though it retained its spot as the most popular grid. The grid, which had previously run in private mode, opened up to the public this month and we began tracking its stats.Īs mentioned before, Sinful Grid and The Public World both saw a drop in active user numbers. The Party Destination Grid is on the most popular list for the first time. Party Destination Grid: 833 active users.Event organizers looking for the biggest audience… you get the idea. Merchants looking to sell content will go to the grids with the most potential customers. People looking to make new friends look for grids that already have the most users. When it comes to general-purpose social grids, especially closed grids, the rule of thumb is: the busier, the better. And find out where to get content for your OpenSim world or region here. Download the recommended Firestorm viewer here. Those with technical skills can run OpenSim worlds on their own servers for free, while commercial hosting starts at less than $5 a region — compared to $300 a region for the same land in Second Life.Ī list of hosting providers is here. It allows people with no technical skills to quickly and cheaply create virtual worlds, and then teleport to other virtual worlds. OpenSim is a free, open source virtual world platform that’s compatible with the Oculus Rift. Land area of OpenSim’s public grids, in standard region equivalents. ![]() The number of hypergrid enabled regions, which reached a record high in January, fell by 700 regions this month. All the rest had less than 500 new registered users with OSgrid closest at 452 and Island Oasis 328. Kitely gained 2028 and InWorldz gained 1551 new registered users. They still had the registered users or most of them before becoming public. Party Destination Grid gained the highest number of registered users - 3661, but that’s only because they just made their grid public and we added their data to our list this month. There are now 272 active grids, which represents a six percent increase or an additional 16 grids this month. Meanwhile, registered user numbers went up by 13,228, the highest gain in the last two years. Without these issues, both land area and active user numbers would have shown an increase this month. That led to a net drop of 2,380 regions on that grid alone. The Public World also suffered some server issues, resulting in a drop of more than 400 actives on that grid alone.Īnd the number of regions went down by 839 standard region equivalents, as Virtual Worlds Grid turned off the less-used servers to allow for a greater than usual load on its welcome regions. Overall, OpenSim lost 975 active users this month, with DreamNation, which had 559 actives last month, not reporting its active user numbers and Sinful moving to a new hosting provider. OpenSim grids reported a net fall in both regions and active users this month, but the regions drop was due to one grid with server issues, and the active users drop was due to a couple of grids that had problems with their stats.
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