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OSgrid, Island Oasis, Littlefield and KiWo host Easter events
A number of grids are hosting Easter events including Easter Egg hunts and contests this Easter season. That includes two events on OSgrid. OSgrid‘s Easter Egg contest began last Monday and will go...
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OpenSim numbers down as two popular grids drop stats
Key OpenSim stats fell this month, as two popular grids — InWorldz and The Adult Grid — opted not to report their total land area or their active users. InWorldz has been the most popular grid every...
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Land area, active users down due to reporting issues
OpenSim lost land area and active users this month — on paper, at least — as one large commercial grid did not report its stats this month, and another grid suffered an outage. The total OpenSim land...
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Top five business models for successful grids
I occasionally get emails from people starting new OpenSim grids, and wondering how they’re going to pay for them. Here are the top five ways that OpenSim grids find success. 1. Commercial grids These...
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OSgrid successfully rebuilds asset cluster, still no ETA
Entrance of Wright Plaza on OSgrid, the grid’s main offices. Ever since the hardware failure took down OSgrid‘s asset database last August, OSgrid residents have been worrying about whether the grid...
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OSgrid is back
New Year’s Eve party on OSgrid. Not this past New Year’s Eve, since the grid was down. But the good times are coming back! (Photo by Key Gruin.) OSgrid, the oldest grid running on the OpenSim software,...
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Avination helps save OSgrid, donates cluster storage solution
OpenSim core developer Melanie Thielker is donating a new cluster storage solution to the community. Called FSAssets, it is designed to replace the MySQL databases or the RAID storage arrays used by...
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Clouds, camera puzzle this first-time user
My name is Tyler Brabo, and, ten days ago, I was hired to research hypergrid destinations for Hyperica. This required that I create an account in OpenSim, get an avatar, and figure out how to surf the...
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OSgrid lost new content last month
OSgrid lost a chunk of new inventory items over the course of this past month, but the problem doesn’t affect other grids. “It appears that for the last month or so, the asset server was unable to...
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Land, traffic drop with summer heat
Correction: Due to an error in collecting data from OSgrid, land area was undercounted this month. In fact, OpenSim’s land area actually increased by the equivalent of 828 regions. OSgrid did lose some...
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OSgrid celebrates 8th birthday, non-profit status
OSgrid has received legal recognition as a non-profit, the grid’s administrators announced earlier this month, just in time for the grid’s 8th birthday celebrations this weekend. OSgrid is the oldest...
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Grids battle against lost hypergrid content
Most people who’ve traveled the hypergrid have had the experience of not being able to bring stuff back home, or of mysteriously not being able to take content to other grids. Recently, a number of...
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Devil’s dozen Halloween events
With Halloween slowly encroaching on us like a spooky ghoul, there are parties, hunts and games all over the metaverse for this special and scary season. Here’s a list of more than a dozen events, all...
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OpenSim records gains in land area and active users
Public OpenSim grids gained the equivalent of 1,257 regions this month, while the number of active users rose by 511, after falling for the past three months in a row. Great Canadian Grid, InWorldz and...
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OpenSim land area passes 80,000 region milestone
The total reported land area of OpenSim’s public grids has passed 80,000 regions — a record high. This is despite the fact that InWorldz, the most popular OpenSim grid, did not report its land area...
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A default avatar could make you look like a copybotter
If you’re using a default avatar that comes with some versions of OpenSim, your name might wind up on copybotted content without you knowing about it. That’s just what happened to a user known as...
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OpenSim land area and active users up
OpenSim’s public grids gained 2,546 active users this month, and land area increased as well, by the equivalent of 2,475 standard region. OSgrid gained the largest land area — 4,440 new standard region...
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OSgrid holds fundraiser
OSgrid fund raiser has kicked off and targets to raise $3000. (Image courtesy David Kariuki.) OSgrid, OpenSim’s largest and oldest virtual world, launched a fundraising campaign today. The OSgrid...
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OpenSim land area drops due to grid changes
The total land area of the public OpenSim grids fell by more than 1,000 regions this month as ZanGrid shut down and Genesis Metaverse moved its hosting. Total active users numbers continued to rise,...
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OpenSim land area breaks 90,000 region milestone
OpenSim land area grew by the equivalent of 6,437 standard regions last month — enough to pass the 90,000 milestone for the first time in history. The public grids reached 90,757 regions despite the...
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