OpenSim users up, but land area down on OSgrid cleanup – Hypergrid Business

OpenSim’s public grids gained 3,151 active users this month, with 15 grids reporting increases of more than 100 actives.

However, land area and registered user numbers were both town.

Most of the loss in land area was due to a major cleanup on OSgrid. The grid reported a drop of more than 800,000 standard region equivalents. Most of that was due to the shutdown of a geographic simulation project, but there was also a loss of other regions, most likely due to a database cleanup.

OSgrid allows anyone to connect regions, including people who run regions on home computers that are not up all the time. To keep other people from grabbing a region’s map location each time a region owner’s computer is shut off, OSgrid maintains the map reservations. If the region owner doesn’t use that spot for awhile, it’s considered abandoned, and the reservation reverts — and the region is no longer counted in the grid’s stats. At least, until the next time the region owner connects to the grid and picks a new map location.

Otherwise, grids grew in size — 39 grids reported an increase in the number of regions, 26 reported a drop, and 129 grids reported no changes in land area.

And the drop in registered users is due to the OpenSimulator Community Conference grid not reporting its stats this month. Last month, it had 2,646 registered users.

The bottom line? OpenSim’s public grids reported 148,135 standard region equivalents this month, a drop of 14,636 from last month. The grids reported 493,734 registered users, a drop of 205 — and 48,018 active users, an increase of 3,151.