A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb 12 months for the staff behind the ethereum.org website, and its neighborhood — we already really feel slightly nostalgic, but it surely’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 individuals, 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 affect and scale so spectacular it deserved its own recap post!
🔡 Translated photographs and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly consider 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 superb. Our staff developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our website who would not converse English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out 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. Test it out and let us know what you think 😀.
🤔 Take a look at your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal and not using a studying sport? Nicely, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you possibly can check your Ethereum data by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes accessible on the Quiz Hub. The neighborhood are serving to to increase our quiz library, so in the event you’ve bought concepts or would like to contribute by creating questions check out our contributing guide!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt something as soon as, twice in the event 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 subject of their selection. With greater than 400 individuals and over 540 articles revealed, we will doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood to study collectively, put their concepts on paper and assist one another alongside the way in which was the largest spotlight of this initiative! You will discover the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) every little thing in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts continuously, however we’re tuned into the most recent 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 e-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 within the EF neighborhood. 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 consequence – and extra importantly, the affect this may convey 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, 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 assist spherical to present again and reward neighborhood members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In whole, 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 bins to ethereum.org neighborhood members – socks pictures have taken over our Twitter feed… nicely, a minimum of we will all agree they have been fairly fashionable!
🎲 Hacking and taking part in within the infinite backyard
Midway by way of 2023, an concept began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place people may 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 constructive. 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 at all times a piece in progress. Earlier than we bid farewell to an eventful 12 months, our staff redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, enhancing the knowledge structure for higher person navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so preserve a watch out for this variation.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of thousands and thousands of views yearly, we can not 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 website 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, 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 plenty of extra potentialities) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each particular person concerned in making ethereum.org potential. Right here’s to an excellent 2024 🎉
