A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb 12 months for the crew behind the ethereum.org web site, and its neighborhood — we already really feel just a little 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 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 certainly one of our proudest achievements, with an impression and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap put up!
🔡 Translated photographs and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly imagine the expertise of people that don’t communicate English must 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 excellent. Our crew 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 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 crew have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand new Ethereum customers. Try it out and tell us what you suppose 😀.
🤔 Check your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying sport? Effectively, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you’ll be able to 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 should you’ve bought concepts or wish to contribute by creating questions take a look at 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 occupied with writing about any Ethereum-related subject of their alternative. 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: (virtually) all the things 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. 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 characteristic permitting you to subscribe to obtain 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 crew 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 impression this may 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 neighborhood. 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 offer again and reward neighborhood members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In complete, 19 people have been awarded, and this initiative validated our need 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 photos have taken over our Twitter feed… effectively, at the very least we will all agree they have been fairly trendy!
🎲 Hacking and taking part in within the infinite backyard
Midway by way of 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place of us might 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 constructive. Sadly (or not), our crew was too busy taking part in Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we should always manage 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 crew redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the knowledge 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 thousands and thousands of views yearly, we can’t overlook the engine that retains this ship operating! After quite a lot 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 alteration!
So, what’s subsequent?
Our Q1 2024 roadmap is already out for suggestions, solutions, 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, creating new options or fixing bugs, and plenty of extra prospects) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each individual concerned in making ethereum.org attainable. Right here’s to an excellent 2024 🎉
