A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a wonderful 12 months for ethereum.org and its group — we already really feel a bit nostalgic, nevertheless it’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
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (nearly) all the pieces in a single place
In Q1 2023, we launched the Ethereum roadmap web page — a complete hub detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Interested by upcoming modifications, technical upgrades and the way the roadmap is outlined? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to study extra.
💌 EF Weblog, straight to your inbox
Talking of the protocol 🤓 Ever need to get first-hand Ethereum and protocol-related updates in your inbox? You’ll be able to subscribe to obtain new posts on this weblog on to your e-mail inbox, courtesy of ethereum.org’s dev staff.
🤔 Check your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying sport? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you possibly can take a look at your Ethereum data by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes accessible on the Quiz Hub. The group are serving to to develop our quiz library, so for those who’ve received concepts or wish to contribute by creating questions take a look at our contributing information!
📝 ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Strive something as soon as, twice for those who prefer it — and this is the reason we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people concerned about 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 assist one another alongside the way in which was the most important spotlight of this initiative! You could find the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
📚 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 certainly one of our proudest achievements, with an influence and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap publish!
🔡 Translated photographs 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 web site who does not communicate English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out your web3 journey however a 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, enhancing the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Check it out and tell us what you suppose 😀.
🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new residence on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core staff additionally assists with net improvement throughout different tasks within the EF. 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 influence 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 location (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 property web page for extra sources (and inspiration)!
🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Spherical @ GG19
Helped by some nice folks at Gitcoin, we launched a assist spherical to offer again and reward group members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In whole, 19 people had been awarded, and this initiative validated our want 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 photos have taken over our Twitter feed… effectively, not less than we are able to all agree they had been fairly trendy!
🎲 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 of us may disconnect a 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 set up 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 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 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 working! After loads 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 variation!
So, what’s subsequent?
Our Q1 2024 roadmap is already out for suggestions, recommendations, 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 individual concerned in making ethereum.org potential. Right here’s to a terrific 2024 🎉
