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Places to visit in-world this holiday season
Grids are getting an early start on the holidays this year, with a number of winter-themed regions already up and ready to visit, and a full calendar of events planned across the hypergrid. Skiing and...
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Users up, land down for holidays
OpenSim’s public grids reached a new high in active users this month, as traffic went up more than 7 percent, or nearly 2,500 actives. There are now 34,881 active monthly users on the grids that report...
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Kitely was OpenSim’s most valuable grid in 2017
One of the most important numbers in OpenSim is how many new people sign up for accounts each month. New people means new customers for merchants, new creators and performers who help improve quality...
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OpenSim stats drop with holidays, reporting issues
OpenSim land area fell by the equivalent of 8,667 standard regions, and active users dropped by 3,473 due to combination of school holidays and fewer grids reporting stats than in the last couple of...
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Maritime Club celebrates 10th anniversary
OpenSim’s longest-running live music venue — Maritime Club Belfast — is celebrating its tenth anniversary this weekend. The party starts at the club location on OSgrid on Sunday, January 28, at 1 p.m....
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OpenSim year in review
Last year was a mixed year for OpenSim grids. Active users were up, but the increase was much lower than in the previous year. The increase in registered users was also smaller, but this was mostly due...
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Dan Banner named OSgrid president
OSgrid ran at a deficit last year and needs your support. Dan Banner was appointed president of OSgrid at the end of March, following a previous term as treasurer. Former president James Stallings, who...
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OSgrid celebrates 9th birthday in July
OSgrid will hold its birthday celebration and fundraiser on July 30 and 31, the grid’s board told residents at a membership meeting last Sunday. OSgrid, which is turning nine this year, is the largest...
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OSgrid birthday celebration exibitor parcels now available
The OSG9BE region on OSgrid. OSgrid residents who plan to exhibit at next month’s anniversary celebration can now claim their parcels on the OSG9BW, OSG9BN and OSG9BE regions, grid president Dan Banner...
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OSgrid reconnects with residents in weekly meetings
Entrance of Wright Plaza on OSgrid, the grid’s main offices. The weekly meetings are held on the second floor. In case you missed it, OSgrid has been holding weekly meetings every Saturday at Wright...
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Three-day OSgrid outage caused by cluster issues
OSgrid’s Wright Plaza at hg.osgrid.org:80:Wright Plaza. OSgrid was down on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week when the grid was no longer able to access its asset services, but other grids...
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OSgrid birthday bash marred by outages
OSgrid’s 9th birthday celebration. (Image courtesy Avia Bonne via Google Plus.) OSgrid celebrated its ninth birthday this weekend, but the events did not go smoothly on OpenSim’s largest and oldest...
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Grids go all-out for Halloween
A number of grids are hosting Halloween themed events, destinations, parties and hunts this month. Halloween Dance at Littlefield Grid (Image courtesy Littlefield Grid.) Littlefield Grid has dedicated...
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Kitely, InWorldz OpenSim’s most valuable grids
Update: The data and chart have been updated to include the full 2016 calendar year. Almost every month, at least one person complains about why InWorldz is listed in our stats, or included in our...
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Holiday parties and events on the hypergrid
Christmas and winter themed events, virtual tours, skating, creative contests, parties, and dances have already hit the ground running in various grids. A number of grids are also offering you to hunt...
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OpenSim land rally continues
OpenSim land area continued to increase gaining a total of 3,400 standard region equivalents this month — after gaining more than 9,000 regions last month. The number of active users also increased by...
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Outages plague grids this month; Speculoos returns
OpenSim land area and users rose slightly this month, despite outages and maintenance on several grids. Atek was down for a while before later resuming, as was Virtuality Grid, while Kinky Grid also...
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OpenSim land, active users down this month
The public OpenSim grids lost the equivalent of nearly 4,000 regions, for a new total land area of 80,671 standard region equivalents. The number of active monthly users dropped by 2,580, to reach a...
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OSgrid fundraiser starts Sep. 21
(Image courtesy OSgrid.) OSgrid, the largest grid in the OpenSim metaverse, will hold a donation carnival this month, staring on Friday, Sep. 21 and running through Sep. 28. “We are hoping to raise...
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Elf Clan finds new home on the hypergrid
Elf Clan, one of the largest themed communities in OpenSim, has found a new home after the collapse of InWorldz. It will now be headquartered on OSgrid, with hypergrid linked locations on DigiWorlds,...
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