A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a wonderful 12 months for the crew behind the ethereum.org web site, and its neighborhood — we already really feel a bit of nostalgic, but it surely’s necessary 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 impression and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap put up!
🔡 Translated photos 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 crew 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 begin your web3 journey however a bit of involved about leaping straight and downloading a dapp? All of us have been there earlier than. With that in thoughts, the ethereum.org crew have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Try it out and tell us what you suppose 😀.
🤔 Take a look at your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal and not using a studying sport? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you possibly can take a look at your Ethereum information 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 want to contribute by creating questions try our contributing information!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt something as soon as, twice in the event 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 serious about writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their alternative. With greater than 400 individuals and over 540 articles revealed, we are able to doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood to be taught collectively, put their concepts on paper and assist one another alongside the way in which was the most important spotlight of this initiative! Yow will discover the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) the whole lot in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts continuously, 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 modifications, technical upgrades, and the way Ethereum is developed? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to be taught extra.
💌 EF Weblog, straight to your inbox
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🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new house on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core crew additionally assists with net improvement 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 outcome – and extra importantly, the impression this could 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’ house, Neighborhood Hub). Higher than that, these artworks are open-source, and we encourage their use by the Ethereum neighborhood. Try our belongings 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 present again and reward neighborhood members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In complete, 19 people have been awarded, and this initiative validated our want to search 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 footage have taken over our Twitter feed… effectively, no less than we are able to all agree they have been fairly fashionable!
🎲 Hacking and enjoying 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 a bit of from the hecticness of web3 occasions’ and spend the time chilling and enjoying 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 crew was too busy enjoying 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 12 months, our crew redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the data structure for higher person navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so preserve an eye fixed out for this alteration.
🧰 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 website 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, options, 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 potential. Right here’s to an important 2024 🎉
