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It’s time for this yr’s OpenSim grid survey — and with OSgrid going offline on the finish of the yr, lots of people are going to be trying on the outcomes.
OSgrid, the oldest grid in OpenSim and the second hottest, with greater than 4,000 energetic customers as of my October stats report, introduced earlier this month that it might shut down at midnight on December 31.
The grid has since stated that it’ll come again in 2027 after a reset. However residents’ full inventories gained’t carry over, and areas working on residents’ personal computer systems will now not be capable to join, OSgrid treasurer Lawrence Roberts instructed Hypergrid Enterprise.
Meaning many OSgrid residents are actually making an attempt to determine the place to go as an alternative — or whether or not to attend.
So this yr, your evaluations of your private home grid’s content material, neighborhood, help, and know-how will assist them, and anyone else in search of a brand new house on the hypergrid.
There are lots of of energetic grids in OpenSim, and the extra choices you give individuals, the much less doubtless they’re to take the survey. So I’m limiting the listing of instructed choices to the highest ten hottest grids, as of my October stats report. That listing contains OSgrid, because the grid remains to be up and working and its residents realize it higher than anybody.
However anybody can even write of their house grid. In earlier years, there was normally a write-in grid that had glorious evaluations and got here out at or close to the highest of the outcomes. Final yr, two write-in grids received the best total scores.
This can be a Google survey, so there are mechanisms to dam automated and spam submissions — and if a grid is discovered to be making an attempt to spam the survey, the entire grid can be banned. (Yup, this has occurred earlier than.)
So for those who’re a grid proprietor, be happy to inform all of your residents to share their trustworthy overview of your grid. However don’t provide rewards in return for constructive evaluations, or arrange a bot to spam the survey.
The deadline for submissions is finish of day Wednesday, October 28, Pacific time. I’m planning to publish the outcomes earlier than the tip of the month.
The anonymized outcomes can be shared with grid homeowners on request, however no private info or electronic mail addresses can be shared with anyone. You possibly can see the outcomes of our earlier surveys right here.
Should you’re an OSgrid resident making an attempt to resolve the place to go, right here’s the place OSgrid refugees can discover land — a few of it free, and right here’s tips on how to save your stuff earlier than the grid goes offline.
If the survey isn’t arising within the type beneath, you will get to it immediately right here.
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