| I've just revisited the openspaces amongst the 1000 regions I randomly sampled in August this year. Back then in total I identified 383 Openspaces & 447 Full regions (the balance were no access).
Of the 383 Openspaces 86 have since left the Grid , 70 since the OS announcement, 6 of these were renames (3 to other openpaces, 3 to Full regions probably indicating a conversion) of the 297 remaining openspaces 22 were no access and a further 8 had changed from openspace to Full region (again possibly indicating a conversion) .
Taking these potential conversions into account this indicate that around 47% of Openspaces lost since the announcement have been used to convert into full regions, with 53% being abandoned. Whilst a small sample this implies that abandonments to date are much higher than many suspect - Of course there is a backlog on Linden conversions, so abandonment may currently be going through quicker than the conversions.
50 of the 447 full regions have gone since the survey , but only 12 of these since the end of October, In total, 14 of the 50 were renames (11 to other full regions, 1 to an openspace and 2 no access) - I was wondering if the growth before the announcement was heavily influenced by conversion of Full regions to 4 openspaces, but these figures tend to say otherwise. |