A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb 12 months for the workforce behind the ethereum.org web site, and its group — we already really feel slightly nostalgic, nevertheless 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 contributors, 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 impression and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap put up!
🔡 Translated photos and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly consider the expertise of people that don’t communicate English ought to 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 supreme. Our workforce 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 slightly involved about leaping straight and downloading a dapp? All of us have been there earlier than. With that in thoughts, the ethereum.org workforce have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Try it out and tell us what you assume 😀.
🤔 Check your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying sport? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you may take a look at your Ethereum information 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 in the event you’ve acquired concepts or wish to contribute by creating questions take a look at our contributing information!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Strive something as soon as, twice in the event you prefer it — and that is why we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people excited about writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their selection. With greater than 400 contributors and over 540 articles revealed, we will doubtlessly say that gathering our group to study collectively, put their concepts on paper and help one another alongside the best way was the most important spotlight of this initiative! Yow will discover the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (nearly) the whole lot in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts continually, however we’re tuned into the most recent proposals from builders all over the world, and have constructed a complete hub detailing detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Interested by 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 dwelling on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core workforce additionally assists with internet improvement throughout different tasks within the EF group. Over the previous 12 months, we have labored on designing and deploying new web sites for go-ethereum and Solidity and we could not be prouder of the outcome – and extra importantly, the impression this will deliver to the Ethereum ecosystem.
🖼️ New 12 months, 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’ dwelling, Group 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 folks 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 have been awarded, and this initiative validated our want to seek 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 containers to ethereum.org group members – socks footage have taken over our Twitter feed… nicely, not less than we will all agree they have 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 slightly 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 constructive. Sadly (or not), our workforce was too busy enjoying Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we should 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 12 months, our workforce redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the knowledge structure for higher person navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so maintain an eye fixed out for this modification.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of thousands and thousands of views yearly, we can not overlook the engine that retains this ship operating! After a whole lot of sweat, many tears, and numerous PRs, we efficiently migrated ethereum.org tech stack to NextJS, paving the best way for improved website efficiency, accessibility, and scalability. We’re excited to ship many new options in 2024 enabled by this modification!
So, what’s subsequent?
Our Q1 2024 roadmap is already out for suggestions, recommendations, 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, growing new options or fixing bugs, and plenty of extra potentialities) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each particular person concerned in making ethereum.org potential. Right here’s to an awesome 2024 🎉
