The final numbers for the 2026 Fantasy Faire in Second Life have been published where the community raised over 96, 000 USD / 24 million Lindens this year which is absolutely amazing.
And of course there are the final numbers. We raised over 96,000usd this year or 24 million lindens
Well done to everyone for rasing this huge amount this year. Spread the word.
Fantasy Faire 2026 was incredible this year with large attendance levels throughout and the regions looked amazing.
I’m sure the 2027 Fantasy Faire will hit new records and we will discover more amazing experiences.
Maria Korolov who is the Hypergrid Business editor and publisher has just published May 2026 latest OpenSim stats showing OpenSim’s land area and active users both increased this week. OpenSim is still growing every month it appears which is good news for those that are active residents on OpenSim grids.
OpenSim’s land area and active users both increased this week, despite the fact that a couple of large grids didn’t report stats.
The public metaverse gained the equivalent of 591 standard-sized regions this month, and 1,275 active users for a total of 149,536 regions and 48, 376 actives.
OpenSim registered users went down this month due to EdMondo which was down apparently.
The total number of registered users went down, by about 15,000, mostly due to the fact that EdMondo — an educational grid that had over 10,000 registered users last month — was down. In addition, Logicamp, which had over 7,000 registered users last month, did not report any user numbers this month.
The Kitely marketplace has shown strong growth since pre-2015 and it has has delivered orders (exportable/non-exportable) to 679 OpenSim grids to date which is pretty impressive.
As of May, there are 21, 960 product listings in Kitely Market, containing 42, 792 product variations, of which 37,485 are exportable, according to Kitely CEO Ilan Tochner.
Stay tuned for more OpenSim news and stats very soon.
Since my last SL23B blog post back in early April 2026 there has been some new noticeable changes over at the SL23B regions on the grid. Today there are more SLB regions that have been added, more transformation that has happened and building is now underway for Second Life 23rd birthday celebrations next month.
Second Life 23rd birthday (SL23B) celebrations start 18th June 2026 through until 19th July 2026. There will be a full month of live performances, live music, community exhibits and grid wide celebrations around the grid.
Second Life official birthday is 23rd June 2026 and there will be many grid celebrations that will be taking place. The theme for this year’s event is “The Golden Age of Hollywood” focusing on vintage glamour, classic cinema, and the “magic of the silver screen”.
Linden Lab first announced SL23B back on Friday 27th March 2026 and preparations are way underway with just weeks left to go until the grand opening. There will be more lab announcements in the weeks ahead most likely as we get nearer.
SL23B Applications Closing Soon
SL23B applications close on Monday 18th May 2026. There is still time to apply over this weekend if you are interested in participating.
In the east of the main SLB regions there are adult rated regions which will be open to the Second Life birthday celebrations. In recent weeks these regions have been transformed and new builds are being set up.
I will blog more on SL23B developments and news in the weeks ahead. I am looking forward to SL23B and blogging about it like in previous years. I’m sure it’s going to be very interesting and fun again.
According to Similar Web which tracks website traffic analysis it appears that the Second Life official website received 6.9 million total visits during April 2026. Since last summer the overall traffic to Second Life has dropped slightly.
Second Life Website traffic saw a rise to roughly 7.7 million total visits in July 2025 and August 2025 up from 7.1 million back in June 2025.
Through March 2026 the Second Life website continued to maintain an average of roughly 7 million visits per month.
For April 2026, Similarweb reported approximately 6.9 million monthly visits, with an average visit duration of over 8 minutes.
May 2026 total visits statistics will come out next month as it’s normally a month behind when its published.
Second Life website update via Chat GPT
I will do a update blog post when more new data becomes available.
Daniel Voyager 
