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 group — we already really feel somewhat nostalgic, nevertheless it’s necessary 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
🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (virtually) the whole lot in a single place
In Q1 2023, we launched the Ethereum roadmap web page — a complete hub detailing Ethereum’s protocol roadmap. Interested by 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 wish 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 staff.
🤔 Check your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal with out a studying recreation? Effectively, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you’ll be able to take a look at your Ethereum data by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes obtainable on the Quiz Hub. The group are serving to to develop our quiz library, so for those who’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 for those who prefer it — and that is why we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people thinking about 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 group 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 members, 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 influence and scale so spectacular it deserved its own recap post!
🔡 Translated photos and diagrams
If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly consider the expertise of people that don’t communicate 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 superb. Our staff developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our web site who would not communicate 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 staff 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 dwelling on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core staff 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 influence this will 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 group. Check out our assets page for extra assets (and inspiration)!
🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Spherical @ GG19
Helped by some nice individuals at Gitcoin, we launched a help 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… nicely, at the very least we are able to all agree they have been fairly trendy!
🎲 Hacking and taking part in within the infinite backyard
Midway by means of 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place people might disconnect somewhat 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 constructive. Sadly (or not), our staff 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 12 months, our staff redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the knowledge structure for higher person navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so preserve a watch 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 operating! After plenty 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 alteration!
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 plenty of extra prospects) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each particular person concerned in making ethereum.org attainable. Right here’s to an ideal 2024 🎉