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 group — we already really feel a little bit nostalgic, but it surely’s essential 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 among 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 imagine 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 preferrred. Our staff developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our website who does not communicate English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out your web3 journey however a little bit 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, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand new Ethereum customers. Check it out and tell us what you suppose 😀.
🤔 Check your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying recreation? Effectively, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you’ll be able to take a look at your Ethereum data by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes obtainable on the Quiz Hub. The group are serving to to develop our quiz library, so should you’ve acquired concepts or want to contribute by creating questions try our contributing information!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt something as soon as, twice should you prefer it — and for this reason we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people eager about writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their alternative. With greater than 400 contributors and over 540 articles revealed, 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) all the pieces in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts continuously, 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. Interested in 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
Wish to get updates from EF groups, gardeners and builders proper in your inbox? We helped code a function permitting you to subscribe to obtain new posts on this weblog on to your electronic mail inbox
🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new residence on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core staff additionally assists with net growth throughout different tasks within the EF group. 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 consequence – and extra importantly, the impression this will deliver 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 positioning (see some: Layer 2, Builders’ residence, 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 assets (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 whole, 19 people have 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 bins to ethereum.org group members – socks photos have taken over our Twitter feed… properly, at the very least we are able to all agree they have 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 may disconnect a little bit 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 staff was too busy taking part in Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we must 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 yr, our staff redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the data structure for higher consumer navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so hold an eye fixed out for this transformation.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of tens of millions of views yearly, we can’t overlook the engine that retains this ship working! After a variety 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 transformation!
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, growing new options or fixing bugs, and lots of extra prospects) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each particular person concerned in making ethereum.org doable. Right here’s to an ideal 2024 🎉