A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb 12 months for the workforce behind the ethereum.org website, and its neighborhood — we already really feel just a little nostalgic, but it surely’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
📚 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 affect and scale so spectacular it deserved its own recap post!
🔡 Translated photos and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly imagine the expertise of people that don’t communicate 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 workforce developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our website who would not communicate English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out 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 workforce have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, enhancing the onboarding expertise for brand new Ethereum customers. Test it out and let us know what you think 😀.
🤔 Take a look at your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying recreation? Nicely, 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 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 folk occupied with writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their alternative. With greater than 400 members and over 540 articles printed, 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 largest spotlight of this initiative! You could find the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (nearly) all the things in a single place
Ethereum’s roadmap is fluid and adapts continually, however we’re tuned into the newest proposals from builders all over the world, and have constructed a complete hub detailing detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Interested by proposed concepts, upcoming adjustments, technical upgrades, and the way Ethereum is developed? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to learn more.
💌 EF Weblog, straight to your inbox
Need to get updates from EF groups, gardeners and builders proper in your inbox? We helped code a function permitting you to subscribe to receive new posts on this weblog on to your electronic mail inbox
🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new residence on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core workforce 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 affect this could convey 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 assist spherical to provide 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… effectively, a minimum of we are able to all agree they had been fairly fashionable!
🎲 Hacking and enjoying within the infinite backyard
Midway via 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place of us may disconnect just a little 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 constructive. Sadly (or not), our workforce was too busy enjoying 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 workforce redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, enhancing the data structure for higher person navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so maintain an eye fixed out for this variation.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of hundreds of thousands of views yearly, we can’t overlook the engine that retains this ship operating! 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, recommendations, 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 particular person concerned in making ethereum.org potential. Right here’s to a fantastic 2024 🎉
