I had a completely different user name on that grid and I was there for about 10 months to maybe a year.
I moved to Avination then.
The scene in there went well beyond any kind of repair or repatriation, I would not return there today if they gave me the two sims I had, for free, it's not the grid that's the problem it's the FOUNDERS and the "clique" group, a small group of women who would gang up on people they either didn't like, or who didn't "fit" their little group on the forums.
Avination has not "collapsed" and I periodically log in there, they have around 650 regions which was been a stable number early on and then it suddenly grew the same as inworldzzz did, and then both began losing regions at a rapid rate over time back to a mostly levelled-off figure.
Dec 2012
Avination: 590
InWorldz 1168
Jan 2012
Avination: 603
InWorldz: 883
Dec 16, 2011:
Avination: 629 regions
InWorldz: 844 regions
June 2011
Avination 1008
InWorldz 887
Dec 2010
Avination: 152
Inworldz: 719
Dec 2009
InWorldz : 130 regions
There was a time slot when both grids shot up to around 1300-1400 regions and then began declining, Avination however has always averaged around 650 regions and that's about what it is today.
Inworldzz numbers are skewed in part by the huge number of self sponsored regions- 206 today, and then the water sims as well I would not "count" as real regions.