Welcome to the primary improvement replace for Ethereum.org, the primary of an everyday sequence of weblog posts holding the neighborhood updated on the web site’s progress.
What have we been as much as?
👋 Hiring!
Once we rebooted ethereum.org earlier this 12 months, it rapidly grew to become clear that the web site wanted a full-time crew behind it to satisfy the neighborhood’s expectations. Over the summer season, we have prioritized constructing that crew to assist the web site into the longer term. At present, we’re thrilled to announce that the EF has employed a full-time net developer for ethereum.org: Sam Richards.
Sam’s position will likely be to guide all technical improvement of ethereum.org, and be the primary level of contact with all open-source contributors to the web site. Sam has a background in net improvement, digital advertising and search engine optimisation, and most just lately labored at an Ethereum pockets startup.
We’re extraordinarily excited for Sam to hitch the crew – please be part of us in welcoming him to the EF!
♻️ Constructing the Translation Program and Crew
One in every of our highest priorities with the web site reboot was to launch a full-fledged translation program. Ethereum is probably the most used programmable blockchain on the earth, and it’s crucial that the 80% of people that don’t communicate English have entry to key sources.
Since saying this system, we now have been joined by 116 volunteers who’re working to translate the web site into 17 languages. A number of of those will likely be pushed stay to the positioning within the coming weeks.
As we proceed to scale up the interpretation effort, we’ll broaden our work to incorporate the interpretation of key third get together sources: weblog posts, documentation, and different materials. We’re additionally working to make sure that ethereum.org itself is inbuilt a method that lets us add and revise translations easily and sustainably.
Considering contributing? Study extra concerning the ethereum.org Translation Program and get began right here.
🛠 Fixing, merging, and updating
Since launch, we now have merged 102 pull requests, making many tweaks and modifications to the web site in response to neighborhood enter. Now that Sam has joined the crew, we count on to have the ability to transfer a lot quicker. As all the time, improvement of ethereum.org occurs in our Github repo – test it out if you wish to comply with alongside extra carefully, or work on one of many excellent points.
We have additionally shipped the primary new piece of paintings for the homepage. Each few months, we’ll replace the web site with new paintings created by the Ethereum neighborhood – a method of showcasing the expertise in our ecosystem, and reminding the world that Ethereum is all the time progressing and enhancing due to the contributions of our world neighborhood.
🎯 What’s subsequent?
Here is a preview of our priorities for the subsequent few weeks:
🤔 Consumer persona evaluation and website restructuring
- Once we launched the brand new ethereum.org, we began with 4 easy subpages: a web page for inexperienced persons, a web page for individuals who wish to use Ethereum, a web page for common studying concerning the undertaking, and a web page for builders.
- Now, we’re rethinking that construction. Armed with a number of months of fundamental consumer analytics information, and substantial suggestions and dialogue from the neighborhood, we’re reviewing the consumer personas for ethereum.org.
- As soon as full, this can doubtless lead us to a reorganization of the top-level construction of the positioning, modifications to the touchdown web page, and probably the addition of latest subpages for customers that are not at the moment well-served.
👩💻 Improved developer sources
- We now have created a selected touchdown web page for Java builders: ethereum.org/java.
- As a result of many builders specialise in a selected programming language, creating language-specific pages are a key developer evangelism and on-boarding method.
- We’re engaged on further developer touchdown pages: see as an example the open-issues for /javascript and /python
- We’re near ending a brand new function of the web site that may enable builders to right away leap right into a “studio” the place they will write their first solidity contract, proper on ethereum.org
- We’re working to make sure that all undertaking administration is uncovered on Github, the place we are able to profit from extra neighborhood remark and enter.
- This may embody creating extra well-documented points to make it simpler for open-source contributors to understand how they may also help with the positioning’s improvement. See all points tagged “good first problem”
- We have additionally created a twitter account for the web site: @ethdotorg. This account will likely be used to share updates like this one, in addition to extra granular updates just like the addition of a fantastic new useful resource or article, a brand new function, an attention-grabbing pull request, and extra.
