The Top 20 Most Popular Sims of Second Life For 2009

Here are the top 20 regions of Second Life most visited in 2009 by users of Koinup, the virtual world social network (occasionally a sponsoring partner to this blog.) In other words, these are the places with SLurls which garnered the most clicks from the Koinup site. Among them is Drowsy, featured above, a wonderful storybook sim which I profiled in June. Curiously, if there's a recurring theme to these most visited places, it's an emphasis on the rustic, rural, and decaying -- not the cyberpunk/beach club/steampunk sites you might expect. Anyway, to see more images and visit these places yourself, click each link below:

20. Chuckles Isle

19. Isla Mallorca

18. Klaw (Pictured above)

17. RMB City 1(A mixed reality art project by my friend China Tracy)

16. Wretched Hollow

15. AeroBreeze

14. Aught

13. WETLands

12. Innsmouth

11. Japan Kansai

Read on for the top ten sites of 2009!

10. Cicada

9. Wasted Night

8. White Taj

7. Poetik velvets

6. Empress and Hierophant (covered in NWN here)

5. IDIA Laboratories (featuring the work of AM Radio, profiled in NWN here)

4. Embryo

3. Drowsy

2. 6pi

1. Error (Featured above)

Thanks to Pier of Koinup for compiling the SLurl data for this list! How many of these places have you visited this year?

Comments

[Miro Collas]

You might want to review that list - Klaw is now closed, I was nearly ejected by a security device. Poetik Velvets is gone, so no point linking to it.

[Lizzie Lexington]

*sigh* Poetik Velvets was recently closed. To Nur, Juju and Hern if you read this post, your work and efforts are missed.

[Hamlet Au]

Dang, Lizzie, that sucks.

Miro, these links also have copious screenshots along with the SLurl, so they also work as an archive of popular places now gone. But thanks, I clarified that in the post.

[OMGWTF Barbecue]

Error is also closed. *weeps*

[Miro Collas]

@Hamlet: True, as an archive they are valuable. I meant the SURLs; sorry for not being clear.

@OMGWTF: Error has been open for several weeks now again, but is still under heavy reconstruction. Uhm correction, what little was there last week is now gone. The SIM is totally empty as of this moment. :-| Other than a few puzzled visitors like myself, that is.

[Miro Collas]

OK, I take that back - the SIM has a new owner and parcels are for rent. Error that is. Blarg.

[LittleLostLinden]

You forgot about this popular place.

It's called Club Tagada.

Traffic is usually around 60,000.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sensuel/203/201/21

Oh. I forgot to mention that half of that traffic is due to camping.

[Fogwoman Gray]

Hamlet, love you and love your blog. BUT.
Titling this more accurately would be "The Top 20 Most Visited Sims of Second Life For Koinup Users 2009". Since I have been in SL since 2006 and have no idea what a Koinup is besides one of your sponsors :)
That said - these are wonderful places and worthy of visits or a memorial toast to great art.

[Loquacia Loon]

All this is a reminder of how easily the places we love most disappear, leaving a hole in your heart.

But Koinup is fantastic for finding new places worth visiting, and has made a real adventurer of me!

[Violet Sweetwater]

Klaw is open and home to Art Box (number 18 on this list). Visit us at Art Box

[Csteph Submariner]

Awww, I thought we might have made a late dash for a place, but I guess a Nov opening isn't the best thing for these lists. Maybe next year eh? I have some as yet fairly nebulous plans for Frideswide this coming year.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Frideswide/219/199/646/

Kudos to Frankie and Violet for Art Box making the top 20.