A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb 12 months for ethereum.org and its neighborhood — we already really feel somewhat 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
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) every little thing in a single place
In Q1 2023, we launched the Ethereum roadmap web page — a complete hub detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Inquisitive about upcoming modifications, 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 may subscribe to receive new posts on this weblog on to your electronic mail inbox, courtesy of ethereum.org’s dev group.
🤔 Take a look at your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal and not using a studying recreation? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you may take a look at your Ethereum data by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes obtainable on the Quiz Hub. The neighborhood are serving to to develop our quiz library, so in the event you’ve obtained concepts or would like to contribute by creating questions check out our contributing guide!
📝 ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Strive 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 focused on writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their selection. 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! Yow will discover 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 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 own recap post!
🔡 Translated pictures and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly imagine the expertise of people that don’t converse English needs 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 ultimate. Our group developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our web site who would not converse English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out 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 group have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, enhancing 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 residence on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core group additionally assists with internet improvement throughout different initiatives 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 consequence – and extra importantly, the impression this will deliver 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 individuals at Gitcoin, we launched a help spherical to offer 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 containers to ethereum.org neighborhood members – socks pictures have taken over our Twitter feed… effectively, no less than we are able to all agree they had been fairly trendy!
🎲 Hacking and enjoying within the infinite backyard
Midway via 2023, an concept began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place of us might disconnect somewhat 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 group was too busy enjoying Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we should always arrange 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 group redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, enhancing the data structure for higher person navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so maintain a watch out for this modification.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of tens of millions of views yearly, we can not overlook the engine that retains this ship working! After quite a lot 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 modification!
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 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 amazing 2024 🎉
