The reader poll I posted one week ago has now closed, and I can now share the results with you.
But before I do that, I want to show you my blog viewer statistics. Notice the HUGE spike in viewers for three consecutive days? Almost all of that traffic was to the original blogpost! I’ve never seen anything like it.
At first, I was excited. And then, I got suspicious. While that particular blogpost eventually got 5,456 views (making it my most-viewed blogpost of all time!), the actual number of votes in my poll did not see a corresponding spike (only 220 votes in total were cast).
I had deliberately designed my poll so that repeat voters were blocked by website cookie and IP address, so obviously, either I was getting a lot of repeat voters, or a lot of visitors were not submitting their vote. And that huge spike in traffic was from locations all over the world, but there were many viewers from a lot of countries that to date had not been frequent visitors before: Turkey, Brazil, Russia, Romania, Colombia. I suspect that my poll was hit by a swarm of bots.
It would appear that SOMEONE was trying to sway (or spoil) my poll. The surge in traffic to that particular
Anyway, time to announce the results of my poll. A total of 220 votes were received:
POLL RESULTS: What Social VR/Virtual World Do You Spend the Most Time In?
- Sansar (43 votes)
- Second Life (38)
- OpenSim/Halcyon grids (23)
- Somnium Space (16)
- VRChat (15)
- High Fidelity (14)
- NeosVR (10)
- Occupy White Walls (8)
- Cryptovoxels (7)
Sinespace - Engage (6)
- AltspaceVR (5)
- TheWaveVR (4)
Anyland - Mozilla Hubs (2)
- Oculus Rooms (2)
- vTime XR (2)
The following platforms all got one vote each:
- Active Worlds
Bigscreen - Hyperfair VR
- JanusVR
- 3DX Chat
And there were two unique write-in ballots*:
- Anarchy Arcade: “It’s social not like chat, but by exploring people’s collections.”
- Pix-Life (I have absolutely no idea what this is, and Google was no help. Does anybody know what this is?)
*Note to OpenSim/Halcyon fans: YOU DO NOT READ INSTRUCTIONS!!!! I simply added all your OpenSim write-ins to the OpenSim total above. Next time, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION. Your particular OpenSim/Halcyon grid is not a special, unique snowflake. Thank you.
Now, I am not going to read too much into these poll results. If anything, they are more a picture of my current blog readership (which tends to skew heavily towards Sansar and Second Life users). And I’m not going to kid myself: I’m sure a few platforms urged their users to vote in this poll. This is far from a scientific survey. I was a little surprised that Second Life did not get first place in my poll, though.
So, what do you think of the poll results? Please feel free to leave a comment below, thank you!
I guess most readers know you from your posts in Sansar Facebook group so, maybe the results show that half of the poll voters got hooked somehow into spending more time in Sansar skyboxes, most probably trying to get an edge on learning the ropes to eventually succeed in business.
It seems that you got the number of people from each world that are following your blog. Sorry, but nothing significant about the real popularity of each worlds.
But thank you for your blog, it is interesting.