2026 OpenSim grid survey

It’s time for this year’s OpenSim grid survey — and with OSgrid going offline at the end of the year, a lot of people are going to be looking at the results.

OSgrid, the oldest grid in OpenSim and the second most popular, with more than 4,000 active users as of my October stats report, announced earlier this month that it would shut down at midnight on December 31.

The grid has since said that it will come back in 2027 after a reset. But residents’ full inventories won’t carry over, and regions running on residents’ own computers will no longer be able to connect, OSgrid treasurer Lawrence Roberts told Hypergrid Business.

That means many OSgrid residents are now trying to figure out where to go instead — or whether to wait.

So this year, your reviews of your home grid’s content, community, support, and technology will help them, and anybody else looking for a new home on the hypergrid.

There are hundreds of active grids in OpenSim, and the more options you give people, the less likely they are to take the survey. So I’m limiting the list of suggested options to the top ten most popular grids, as of my October stats report. That list includes OSgrid, since the grid is still up and running and its residents know it better than anyone.

But anyone can also write in their home grid. In previous years, there was usually a write-in grid that had excellent reviews and came out at or near the top of the results. Last year, two write-in grids got the highest overall scores.

This is a Google survey, so there are mechanisms to block automated and spam submissions — and if a grid is found to be trying to spam the survey, the whole grid will be banned. (Yup, this has happened before.)

So if you’re a grid owner, feel free to tell all your residents to share their honest review of your grid. But don’t offer rewards in return for positive reviews, or set up a bot to spam the survey.

The deadline for submissions is end of day Wednesday, October 28, Pacific time. I’m planning to post the results before the end of the month.

The anonymized results will be shared with grid owners on request, but no personal information or email addresses will be shared with anybody. You can see the results of our previous surveys here.

If you’re an OSgrid resident trying to decide where to go, here’s where OSgrid refugees can find land — some of it free, and here’s how to save your stuff before the grid goes offline.

If the survey isn’t coming up in the form below, you can get to it directly here.