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 prior 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 entire variety of registered customers went up nevertheless, 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, Contemporary 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 working 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 individuals 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 without spending a dime utilizing both DreamGrid, the official OpenSim installer for individuals who are extra technically inclined, or every other distribution, whereas industrial internet hosting begins at lower than $5 a area.
An inventory of OpenSim internet hosting suppliers is right here. If you happen to supply area leases and aren’t on this listing, electronic mail me!
You may obtain the beneficial Firestorm viewer right here and discover out the place to get content material to your OpenSim world or area right here.
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High 25 grids by energetic customers
In relation 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 clients. Occasion organizers in search of 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
Celebration Vacation spot Grid: 719 energetic customers
Associates 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 accordance with 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 will have these orders redelivered to their Kitely avatar,” Tochner informed Hypergrid Enterprise. “Kitely gives a dependable house for individuals and permits patrons from Kitely Market to regain entry to their misplaced purchases if their grid shuts down.”
Kitely Market has delivered orders to 679 OpenSim grids thus far.
Traditionally, all of the Kitely Market progress has been in exportable content material. Which means patrons can have their purchases delivered on to avatar inventories on different grids, and that they will 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 little thing is non-exportable. And, generally, copybot instruments and content material thieves don’t hassle to verify merchandise permissions earlier than committing their thefts. As an alternative, permitting individuals to buy exported content material legally, conveniently, and at affordable costs destroys the copybot economic system fully, leaving solely a handful of freebie shops on grids that haven’t but observed that they exist and brought them down.
One other supply of authentic content material on OpenSim is Linda Kellie’s merchandise, and people of different creators that give them away without spending a dime underneath Artistic 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 providers dramatically decreased on-line film piracy.
The Kitely Market is the biggest assortment of economic authorized content material accessible in OpenSim. It’s accessible to each hypergrid-enabled and closed, non-public grids. The directions for learn how to configure the Kitely Marketplace for closed grids are right here.
High 40 grids by land space
All area counts on this listing are, at any time when accessible, when it comes to customary area equivalents. Lively consumer counts embody hypergrid guests at any time when attainable.
There have been a complete of 314 energetic grids this month, 241 of which printed statistics. I’m at the moment monitoring a complete of two,143 grids.
Many faculty, 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 reputation. That is very helpful if you’re making a hyperport.
You may see all of the historic OpenSim statistics right here, together with polls and surveys, relationship all the best way 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
Associates Grid: 1,497 areas
Sub-Model House: 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 Associates: 171 areas
Dynamic Worldz: 171 areas
Adreans-World: 165 areas
Seconds: 161 areas
Logicamp: 142 areas
Have you learnt of every 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].
