For example, #OSgrid, the oldest and biggest grid, has once again managed to grow larger than #SecondLife. OSgrid reported 29,770 standard regions; the most recent number from Second Life are 27,813 regions as per September 10th.
Only one more #grid measures over 20,000 standard regions, over 25,000 even, and that's the #WolfTerritoriesGrid (25,504 standard regions). Now, while all of OSgrid except for the official sims is hosted by its respective owners and attached to the grid for free, the #WolfGrid is entirely owned by @Lone Wolf and offered as paid rentals. Long ago, when the grid wasn't nearly as big yet, he said you'd have to be a millionnaire to own so much land in Second Life.
#Kitely (18,301 standard regions) is almost as big as all Second Life Private Estates (18,380) put together.
Add #ZetaWorlds (10,386 standard regions) with its massive sailable grid-owned ocean, and you've got four grids which altogether have three times Second Life's landmass. And the top 38 grids on the #Hypergrid that report their stats to Hypergrid Business are a bit over 440% as big as Second Life.
The second-oldest grid, #3rdRockGrid, has shrunk by about 30%. Should I be worried?
One more detail: #TheGridThatShallNotBeNamed is back in the stats. Maybe it wasn't shut down after all. Interestingly, it ranks 9th in active users (1,121), but 34th in land mass (209 standard regions). As the active users include Hypergrid visitors, this might be a case of bile fascination after the Hypergrid connection was re-established. If not, it says a lot about the target audience of this grid.
It is like in RL. In the desert you get every land for free but no one lives there. In big cities where all the people meet you just pay for an apartment a fortune.
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