A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a wonderful yr for the staff behind the ethereum.org web site, and its neighborhood — we already really feel slightly nostalgic, but it surely’s essential to create space for celebrating the issues the ethereum.org neighborhood 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 neighborhood — 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 impression and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap submit!
🔡 Translated pictures and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly consider 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 perfect. Our staff developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our web site who does not communicate English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to begin 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 staff have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, enhancing the onboarding expertise for brand new Ethereum customers. Check it out and tell us what you assume 😀.
🤔 Take a look at your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal with out a studying sport? Nicely, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you may take a look at your Ethereum data by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes obtainable on the Quiz Hub. The neighborhood are serving to to increase our quiz library, so when you’ve obtained concepts or wish to contribute by creating questions try our contributing information!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Strive something as soon as, twice when you prefer it — and that is why we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for folk occupied with writing about any Ethereum-related subject of their selection. With greater than 400 members and over 540 articles printed, we are able to doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood to study collectively, put their concepts on paper and help one another alongside the way in which was the largest spotlight of this initiative! You’ll find the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (nearly) all the pieces in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts always, however we’re tuned into the newest proposals from builders around the globe, and have constructed a complete hub detailing detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Inquisitive about proposed concepts, upcoming modifications, 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 staff additionally assists with internet growth throughout different tasks within the EF neighborhood. 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 outcome – and extra importantly, the impression this could 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 neighborhood. 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 neighborhood members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In complete, 19 people had been awarded, and this initiative validated our want to seek out extra methods to return worth to our neighborhood in 2024!
🧦 New merch, who dis?
A token of appreciation to our contributors: in November, we shipped over 100 swag packing containers to ethereum.org neighborhood members – socks photos have taken over our Twitter feed… properly, at the least we are able to all agree they had been fairly fashionable!
🎲 Hacking and taking part in within the infinite backyard
Midway by 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place of us might disconnect slightly from the hecticness of web3 occasions’ and spend the time chilling and taking part in playing cards/board video games with the neighborhood? With that premise, we organized (in)finite video games at Devconnect IST and the suggestions from the Ethereum neighborhood was overwhelmingly optimistic. Sadly (or not), our staff was too busy taking part in Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we should always arrange a second version at Devcon SEA then?
🧭 Navigation redesign
ethereum.org is all the time a piece in progress. Earlier than we bid farewell to an eventful yr, our staff redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, enhancing the data structure for higher consumer navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so maintain an eye fixed out for this alteration.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of hundreds of thousands of views yearly, we can’t overlook the engine that retains this ship operating! After plenty of sweat, many tears, and numerous PRs, we efficiently migrated ethereum.org tech stack to NextJS, paving the way in which for improved web site efficiency, accessibility, and scalability. We’re excited to ship many new options in 2024 enabled by this alteration!
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 prospects) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each individual concerned in making ethereum.org doable. Right here’s to an excellent 2024 🎉
