A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a wonderful yr for ethereum.org and its neighborhood — we already really feel a bit nostalgic, nevertheless it’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
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) all the things 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 modifications, technical upgrades and the way the roadmap is outlined? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to be taught extra.
💌 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 obtain new posts on this weblog on to your e mail inbox, courtesy of ethereum.org’s dev crew.
🤔 Check your Ethereum information with Quizzes
A studying portal with no studying recreation? Effectively, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you possibly can check your Ethereum information 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 acquired concepts or want to contribute by creating questions take a look at our contributing information!
📝 ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt 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 people enthusiastic about writing about any Ethereum-related subject of their selection. With greater than 400 contributors and over 540 articles printed, we will doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood to be taught collectively, put their concepts on paper and help one another alongside the best way was the most important spotlight of this initiative! Yow will discover the #ETHWriters recap on Twitter.
📚 ethereum.org Translatathon
56 languages, 217 contributors, 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 in every of our proudest achievements, with an affect and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap submit!
🔡 Translated pictures and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly imagine the expertise of people that don’t converse 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 superb. Our crew developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our web site who does not converse English.
👛 Interactive pockets walkthroughs
Keen to start out your web3 journey however a bit 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, enhancing the onboarding expertise for brand new Ethereum customers. Check it out and tell us what you assume 😀.
🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new house on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core crew additionally assists with internet improvement throughout different initiatives 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, Builders’ house, Neighborhood Hub). Higher than that, these artworks are open-source, and we encourage their use by the Ethereum neighborhood. Try our property 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 had been awarded, and this initiative validated our want 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 packing containers to ethereum.org neighborhood members – socks footage have taken over our Twitter feed… nicely, at the very least we will all agree they had been fairly trendy!
🎲 Hacking and enjoying within the infinite backyard
Midway by way of 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place of us may disconnect a bit 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 crew was too busy enjoying Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we must 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 yr, our crew redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, enhancing the knowledge structure for higher consumer navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so maintain a watch out for this transformation.
🧰 Full migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of hundreds of thousands of views yearly, we can not 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 best way for improved web site efficiency, accessibility, and scalability. We’re excited to ship many new options in 2024 enabled by this transformation!
So, what’s subsequent?
Our Q1 2024 roadmap is already out for suggestions, ideas, 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 lots of extra prospects) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each individual concerned in making ethereum.org potential. Right here’s to an excellent 2024 🎉
