A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb year for the staff behind the ethereum.org website, and its neighborhood — we already really feel just a little nostalgic, nevertheless it’s vital 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 repeatedly 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 publish!
🔡 Translated pictures and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly imagine the expertise of people that don’t converse 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 web site who would not converse English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to begin your web3 journey however just a little 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. Test it out and let us know what you think 😀.
🤔 Check your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal with out a studying recreation? 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 accessible on the Quiz Hub. The neighborhood are serving to to broaden our quiz library, so in case you’ve bought concepts or would like to contribute by creating questions check out our contributing guide!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Strive something as soon as, twice in case you prefer it — and because of this we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for folk in writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their selection. With greater than 400 members and over 540 articles printed, we will doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood 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: (nearly) the whole lot in one place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts always, however we’re tuned into the newest proposals from builders world wide, and have constructed a complete hub detailing detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Inquisitive about proposed concepts, upcoming adjustments, technical upgrades, and the way Ethereum is developed? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to learn more.
💌 EF Weblog, straight to your inbox
Wish to get updates from EF groups, gardeners and builders proper in your inbox? We helped code a characteristic permitting you to subscribe to receive 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 initiatives in the EF neighborhood. Over the previous year, 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 impression this will convey to the Ethereum ecosystem.
🖼️ New year, 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, Developers’ home, Community Hub). Higher than that, these artworks are open-source, and we encourage their use by the Ethereum neighborhood. Check out our assets 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 individuals were awarded, and this initiative validated our need 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 containers to ethereum.org neighborhood members – socks pictures have taken over our Twitter feed… properly, not less than we will all agree they have been fairly trendy!
🎲 Hacking and taking part in in the infinite backyard
Midway by 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place people may disconnect just a little 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 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 year, 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 hold a watch out for this alteration.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of hundreds of thousands of views each year, we can’t overlook the engine that retains this ship operating! 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 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, 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 awesome 2024 🎉
