A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a wonderful yr for the crew behind the ethereum.org web site, and its group — we already really feel just a little nostalgic, however it’s vital to create space for celebrating the issues the ethereum.org group helped us construct in 2023 and proceed the momentum in 2024.
In that spirit, we ready a recap with our 2023 highlights of the ethereum.org group — benefit from the studying!
The highlights
📚 ethereum.org Translatathon
56 languages, 217 members, and 1.47 million phrases (🤯) translated in a one-week on-line competitors, the Translatathon set the tone for the significance of constantly fostering accessibility in Web3, one phrase at a time. It’s one in every of our proudest achievements, with an influence and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap put up!
🔡 Translated pictures and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly imagine the expertise of people that don’t communicate English must be equal to those that do. So, we realized that having our pages translated into Spanish (for instance) however leaving all of the diagrams and pictures in English was lower than splendid. Our crew developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our website who would not communicate English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out your web3 journey however just a little involved about leaping straight and downloading a dapp? All of us have been there earlier than. With that in thoughts, the ethereum.org crew have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand new Ethereum customers. Try it out and tell us what you suppose 😀.
🤔 Take a look at your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal with out a studying sport? Effectively, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you’ll be able to take a look at your Ethereum data by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes accessible on the Quiz Hub. The group are serving to to develop our quiz library, so if you happen to’ve acquired concepts or want to contribute by creating questions try our contributing information!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Strive something as soon as, twice if you happen to prefer it — and because of this we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people enthusiastic about writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their alternative. With greater than 400 members and over 540 articles revealed, we are able to doubtlessly say that gathering our group to study collectively, put their concepts on paper and help one another alongside the way in which was the most important spotlight of this initiative! You’ll find the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (nearly) every thing in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts consistently, however we’re tuned into the newest proposals from builders world wide, and have constructed a complete hub detailing detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Inquisitive about proposed concepts, upcoming adjustments, technical upgrades, and the way Ethereum is developed? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to study extra.
💌 EF Weblog, straight to your inbox
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🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new residence on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core crew additionally assists with net growth throughout different tasks within the EF group. Over the previous yr, we have labored on designing and deploying new web sites for go-ethereum and Solidity and we could not be prouder of the consequence – and extra importantly, the influence this may convey to the Ethereum ecosystem.
🖼️ New yr, new illustrations
We entered our glow-up period by commissioning eight new illustrations to ethereum.org, now featured on pages throughout the location (see some: Layer 2, Builders’ residence, Neighborhood Hub). Higher than that, these artworks are open-source, and we encourage their use by the Ethereum group. Take a look at our belongings web page for extra sources (and inspiration)!
🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Spherical @ GG19
Helped by some nice individuals at Gitcoin, we launched a help spherical to provide again and reward group members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In complete, 19 people had been awarded, and this initiative validated our need to search out extra methods to return worth to our group in 2024!
🧦 New merch, who dis?
A token of appreciation to our contributors: in November, we shipped over 100 swag bins to ethereum.org group members – socks photos have taken over our Twitter feed… effectively, not less than we are able to all agree they had been fairly trendy!
🎲 Hacking and enjoying within the infinite backyard
Midway via 2023, an concept began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place people might disconnect just a little from the hecticness of web3 occasions’ and spend the time chilling and enjoying playing cards/board video games with the group? With that premise, we organized (in)finite video games at Devconnect IST and the suggestions from the Ethereum group was overwhelmingly optimistic. Sadly (or not), our crew was too busy enjoying Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we must always set up a second version at Devcon SEA then?
🧭 Navigation redesign
ethereum.org is at all times a piece in progress. Earlier than we bid farewell to an eventful yr, our crew redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the knowledge structure for higher person navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so hold an eye fixed out for this variation.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of tens of millions of views yearly, we can not overlook the engine that retains this ship working! After loads of sweat, many tears, and numerous PRs, we efficiently migrated ethereum.org tech stack to NextJS, paving the way in which for improved website efficiency, accessibility, and scalability. We’re excited to ship many new options in 2024 enabled by this variation!
So, what’s subsequent?
Our Q1 2024 roadmap is already out for suggestions, strategies, and contributions. Take a look on how one can begin contributing to ethereum.org (e.g. writing or reviewing content material, creating new designs, translating the web site, creating new options or fixing bugs, and plenty of extra potentialities) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each individual concerned in making ethereum.org doable. Right here’s to a terrific 2024 🎉