The Adult Metaverse community was the fastest-growing this year, reaching 1,255Â members by the end of 2015, followed by OpenSim Virtual, which reached 1,649 members and retained its spot as the top OpenSim-focused community on Google Plus.
Four grids made the top-fifteen list growth list: Kitely, OSgrid, DigiWorldz, and the Great Canadian Grid. In addition, Metropolis, was on the list of the fifteen largest communities, but only gained 85 new members this past year.
The fifteen fastest-growing communities on Google Plus
- The Adult Metaverse: gained 876 members since January
- OpenSim Virtual: gained 550 members since January
- OpenSim: gained 246 members since November
- Opensim Worlds: gained 231 members since February
- Virtual World Blogs: gained 214 members since May
- The Hypergrid WIP Show: gained 209 members since April
- Kitely Virtual: gained 179 members since January
- Hypergrid Events: gained 174 members since January
- OpenSim Everything: gained 168 members since November
- Hypergrid Safari: gained 166 members since January
- DigiWorldz: gained 162 members since April
- Great Canadian Gridders eh: gained 156 members since February
- Metaverse Tours: gained 152 members since January
- OSgrid.org: gained 152 members since January
- OpenSimulator: gained 136 members since January
Fifteen largest communities
- OpenSim Virtual: 1,623 members
- The Adult Metaverse: 1,158 members
- OSgrid.org: 703 members
- Kitely Virtual: 555 members
- Metaverse Week in Review: 414 members
- Hypergrid Safari: 315 members
- Metropolis Metaversum: 301 members
- Hypergrid Events: 295 members
- Hypergrid Destinations: 288 members
- OpenSim Destinations: 278 members
- OpenSim Creations: 263 members
- OpenSim: 246 members
- Francogrid: 244 members
- Opensim Worlds: 231 members
- OpenSim Bloggers: 223 members
Hypergrid Business editor and publisher Maria Korolov is a science fiction novelist. During the day, Maria Korolov is an award-winning freelance technology journalist who covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise virtual reality. See her Amazon author page here and follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn, and check out her latest videos on the Maria Korolov YouTube channel. Email her at maria@hypergridbusiness.com. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.
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