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 website, and its group — we already really feel a bit of nostalgic, but it surely’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
📚 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 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 splendid. Our crew developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our website who does not converse English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out 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 new Ethereum customers. Test it out and let us know what you think 😀.
🤔 Check your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying recreation? Nicely, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you’ll be able to check your Ethereum information by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes out there on the Quiz Hub. The group are serving to to broaden our quiz library, so if you happen to’ve acquired concepts or would like to contribute by creating questions check out our contributing guide!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt something as soon as, twice if you happen to prefer it — and that is why 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 selection. With greater than 400 individuals and over 540 articles revealed, we will doubtlessly say that gathering our group 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! You’ll find the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) every little thing in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts continuously, however we’re tuned into the most recent proposals from builders world wide, and have constructed a complete hub detailing detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Interested in proposed concepts, upcoming modifications, technical upgrades, and the way Ethereum is developed? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to learn more.
💌 EF Weblog, straight to your inbox
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🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new residence on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core crew additionally assists with internet improvement throughout different tasks within the EF group. 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 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 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 group. Check out our assets page for extra assets (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 complete, 19 individuals were 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 pictures have taken over our Twitter feed… properly, a minimum of we will all agree they had been fairly fashionable!
🎲 Hacking and taking part in within the infinite backyard
Midway via 2023, an concept began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place of us might disconnect a bit of 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 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 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 consumer navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so hold an eye fixed out for this variation.
🧰 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 a whole lot 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 variation!
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, growing 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 a fantastic 2024 🎉