A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb yr for ethereum.org and its neighborhood — we already really feel somewhat nostalgic, nevertheless it’s essential 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
????️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) every thing in a single place
In Q1 2023, we launched the Ethereum roadmap web page — a complete hub detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Interested in upcoming adjustments, technical upgrades and the way the roadmap is outlined? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to learn more.
???? 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 receive new posts on this weblog on to your e mail inbox, courtesy of ethereum.org’s dev workforce.
???? Take a look at your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying sport? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you may 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 develop our quiz library, so should you’ve received concepts or would like to contribute by creating questions check out our contributing guide!
???? ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt something as soon as, twice should you prefer it — and because of this we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people excited about writing about any Ethereum-related subject of their alternative. With greater than 400 individuals and over 540 articles revealed, we are able to doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood to study collectively, put their concepts on paper and help one another alongside the way in which was the largest spotlight of this initiative! You’ll 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 one among our proudest achievements, with an affect and scale so spectacular it deserved its own recap post!
???? Translated pictures and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly consider 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 supreme. Our workforce 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 somewhat involved about leaping straight and downloading a dapp? All of us have been there earlier than. With that in thoughts, the ethereum.org workforce have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Test it out and let us know what you think ????.
???? Geth and Solidity: a brand new house on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core workforce additionally assists with net growth throughout different tasks within the EF. Over the previous yr, 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 deliver to the Ethereum ecosystem.
????️ New yr, 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, 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 individuals at Gitcoin, we launched a help 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… properly, at the very least we are able to all agree they have been fairly fashionable!
???? Hacking and taking part in within the infinite backyard
Midway via 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place people may disconnect somewhat 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 workforce 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 at all times a piece in progress. Earlier than we bid farewell to an eventful yr, our workforce redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the knowledge structure for higher person navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so maintain an eye fixed out for this alteration.
???? Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of tens of millions of views yearly, we can’t overlook the engine that retains this ship working! After numerous 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 plenty of extra potentialities) 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 ????
