A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb 12 months for the group behind the ethereum.org web site, and its group — we already really feel somewhat 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 individuals, and 1.47 million phrases (🤯) translated in a one-week on-line competitors, the Translatathon set the tone for the significance of repeatedly fostering accessibility in Web3, one phrase at a time. It’s certainly one of our proudest achievements, with an affect and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap publish!
🔡 Translated photos and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly consider the expertise of people that don’t converse English needs 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 group developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our web site who would not converse English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to begin your web3 journey however somewhat involved about leaping straight and downloading a dapp? All of us have been there earlier than. With that in thoughts, the ethereum.org group have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Check it out and tell us what you suppose 😀.
🤔 Check your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying recreation? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you possibly can check your Ethereum information by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes obtainable on the Quiz Hub. The group are serving to to increase our quiz library, so in case you’ve received concepts or want to contribute by creating questions take a look at our contributing information!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Strive something as soon as, twice in case 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 taken with writing about any Ethereum-related subject of their selection. With greater than 400 individuals and over 540 articles printed, we are able to 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! You will discover the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) every part in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts continuously, 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 group 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 end result – and extra importantly, the affect this will carry 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 positioning (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 property 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 offer 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 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 packing containers to ethereum.org group members – socks footage have taken over our Twitter feed… nicely, not less than we are able to all agree they had been fairly fashionable!
🎲 Hacking and taking part in within the infinite backyard
Midway by 2023, an concept began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place of us might disconnect somewhat from the hecticness of web3 occasions’ and spend the time chilling and taking part in 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 group was too busy taking part in Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we should always manage 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 12 months, our group redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the data 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 a number of sweat, many tears, and numerous PRs, we efficiently migrated ethereum.org tech stack to NextJS, paving the best way for improved web site 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, ideas, 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 attainable. Right here’s to a fantastic 2024 🎉
