From the explosion of the scaling and layer 2 ecosystems to the primary Devcon in three years and The Merge, it has been an thrilling 12 months for Ethereum and ethereum.org. We’ve shipped many impactful options and content material, with hundreds of unbelievable contributors serving to us alongside the way in which.
Let’s dive into our highlights of 2022:
Translation program 🌎
Bringing academic Ethereum content material to as many languages as doable is crucial to our crew’s imaginative and prescient for ethereum.org. Our unbelievable group of contributors has come a great distance since we turned a multilingual web site in 2019, and in 2022 we have been thrilled to see continued development within the variety of folks contributing to our translation program and the variety of readers in non-English languages surging.
2022 in numbers
- 3k new translators joined
- 4.6 million phrases translated
- 28% of visits are in languages aside from English (double 2021’s excessive)
Assist us translate ethereum.org
There was rather a lot to rejoice in 2022, however we nonetheless have far to go to ship Ethereum schooling to the non-English talking world. In case you communicate a language apart from English, take a look at the interpretation program and assist make ethereum.org extra accessible to everybody!
Be a part of the interpretation program
Ethereum.org is the work of hundreds of unbelievable contributors, and each contribution helps us construct an important useful resource for the group. As with the interpretation program, ethereum.org noticed wonderful engagement in lots of different community-driven initiatives. In 2022 we hit 37,000 Discord members, an unbelievable 7,000 Crowdin members, and the massive milestone of 1,000 complete contributors on GitHub!
Particularly, between our rollout of Typescript and the UI library migration, we had over 50 code contributors 🤯!
For content material, we additionally had tens of contributors assist us write new pages for ethereum.org. These included pages on blockchain bridges, DeSci, decentralized identification, and lots of extra!
We will’t emphasize sufficient how a lot we admire each contributor ❤️. In case you’d prefer to contribute and assist us construct ethereum.org in 2023, take a look at our Q1 roadmap.
Open design system 📐
Since Could of 2022, we’ve been engaged on creating the ethereum.org design system. It took lots of work to get the design to the place it’s, and we’re excited to share it. In Q1 2023, we’ll start implementing the code to assist the brand new design system.
One of many overarching objectives behind making a design system is to present designers a strategy to contribute to the open-source Ethereum group. In 2023, we’ll proceed to work with the group to open up our design processes to the group.
Need to get entangled? Observe alongside in Figma and be a part of the dialog in our #design Discord channel.
A number of new pages 🥳
2022 was the largest 12 months but for brand spanking new content material on ethereum.org. We addressed a lot of our content material gaps and delivered informative, well-received pages that have been learn by greater than one million folks.
There are too many pages to record all the things right here (now greater than 300 pages on the web site!), however among the highlights embody:
- Layer 2: teaches customers why Ethereum is scaling by way of rollups and learn how to onboard to layer 2.
- Run a node: highlights the worth of operating a node (each to folks operating their very own node and to Ethereum typically) and offers readers step-by-step assets to start out operating their very own nodes.
- Staking hub: demystifies the staking course of and the important thing advantages of various staking approaches.
- Introduction to Web3: explains the rules of Web3, its philosophy, and present limitations.
- Vitality consumption: reveals Ethereum’s present and historic power consumption and the affect The Merge had.
In 2023, we’ll proceed working with our group and subject-matter specialists throughout the Ethereum ecosystem to fill our gaps and ship high-value content material to our readers. In case you’d like to assist, attain out to us on Discord.
You possibly can see what we’re engaged on subsequent in our quarterly roadmap, or you’ll be able to create a difficulty if there’s content material you’d prefer to see added to ethereum.org.
Discover pockets revamp 👛
One other large milestone in 2022 was the revamp of our wallets content material. A big portion of site visitors to ethereum.org is from customers trying to get their first pockets. On our earlier discover a pockets web page, it took lots of work to match the completely different options wallets supplied, making it onerous for customers to resolve which pockets greatest suited their wants.
After a number of design iterations, we landed on creating an e-commerce-like expertise—permitting customers to filter wallets by particular options, evaluate options between wallets, and choose consumer personas with advisable options.
Try our discover a pockets web page. We love suggestions; tell us your ideas on our Discord.
Be taught hub and be taught quizzes 🧠
There’s a fixed stream of latest customers making an attempt to find out about Ethereum. In 2022, we spent lots of time focussing on creating a greater expertise for these customers. Creating easy-to-understand content material is a driving precept of all the things we work on, however these two initiatives have been particularly centered on this subset of our customers.
Be taught hub
We created the Be taught Hub as a result of customers wanted assist discovering a place to begin for studying about Ethereum with out feeling overwhelmed by the quantity of knowledge obtainable and the disconnectedness of the completely different pages on our web site. The Be taught Hub is a guided pathway for customers, ranging from the fundamentals of what cryptocurrencies are, strolling them by way of getting began on Ethereum with their first pockets, educating them how the Ethereum protocol works, and the way they will get entangled within the ecosystem.
Studying quizzes
In addition to offering a structured studying path with the Be taught Hub, we wished to make studying about Ethereum extra enjoyable for customers, enhance their retention, and gamify the method. To do that, we created studying quizzes. Every quiz has a number of questions, with a number of potential solutions with explanations after submitting a solution to assist train customers after they get questions fallacious.
We at the moment have studying quizzes on eight pages and plan to broaden it with extra performance and pages in 2023. They’re a ton of enjoyable! Verify them out:
The Merge 🌳
Undoubtedly the largest Ethereum occasion of 2022 was The Merge. As a part of making ready The Merge, we audited the whole web site for content material that may require adjustments after Ethereum switched to proof-of-stake.
Along with auditing and updating tons of of pages of present content material, we created many new pages to mirror the adjustments that have been made like: proof-of-stake continuously requested questions, proof-of-stake vs proof-of-work, how blocks are produced on proof-of-stake, and lots of extra.
For full particulars, see the three giant initiatives we labored on associated to The Merge:
Different initiatives 🏃♂️
In addition to our core product on ethereum.org, we spent lots of time serving to out on different initiatives central to the success of Ethereum. We gained’t spotlight every of them in-depth, however you must verify them out!
Wanting forward 👀
With a lot achieved, the ethereum.org group has a lot to be pleased with in 2022. Thanks once more to the hundreds of contributors who acquired concerned!
Like Ethereum itself, we nonetheless have an extended strategy to go if we wish to proceed constructing essentially the most complete and inclusive useful resource for Ethereum on the web.
For that, we’d like your assist! We’ve simply launched our Q1 product roadmap. Test it out, and tell us the way you’d prefer to get entangled 🙏