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 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
🛣️ 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. Inquisitive about upcoming adjustments, 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’ll be able to subscribe to obtain new posts on this weblog on to your electronic mail inbox, courtesy of ethereum.org’s dev group.
🤔 Check your Ethereum data with Quizzes
A studying portal and not using a studying sport? Properly, that was ethereum.org earlier than June 2023… now, you may check your Ethereum data by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes out there on the Quiz Hub. The group are serving to to develop our quiz library, so for those who’ve bought concepts or wish to contribute by creating questions take a look at our contributing information!
✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt something as soon as, twice for those who prefer it — and for this reason we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for people desirous about writing about any Ethereum-related subject of their selection. With greater than 400 members and over 540 articles printed, we will doubtlessly say that gathering our group to be taught collectively, put their concepts on paper and help one another alongside the way in which was the largest spotlight of this initiative! You could find 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 repeatedly fostering accessibility in Web3, one phrase at a time. It’s considered one of our proudest achievements, with an affect and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap submit!
🔡 Translated photographs 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 supreme. Our group 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 begin 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 group have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Check it out and tell us what you suppose 😀.
### 🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new house 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 end result – and extra importantly, the affect this could 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 location (see some: Layer 2, Builders’ house, Group Hub). Higher than that, these artworks are open-source, and we encourage their use by the Ethereum group. Try our belongings web page for extra sources (and inspiration)!
🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Spherical @ GG19
Helped by some nice individuals at Gitcoin, we launched a help spherical to provide again and reward group members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In complete, 19 people had been awarded, and this initiative validated our need to search 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 bins to ethereum.org group members – socks pictures have taken over our Twitter feed… effectively, a minimum of we will all agree they had been fairly trendy!
🎲 Hacking and taking part in within the infinite backyard
Midway via 2023, an thought began to emerge — what if we hosted a gathering the place people may 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 group was too busy taking part in Uno they forgot to snap an image… guess we must 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, bettering the knowledge structure for higher consumer navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so maintain an eye fixed out for this modification.
🧰 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 working! After a number 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 modification!
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 lots of extra prospects) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each individual concerned in making ethereum.org doable. Right here’s to an awesome 2024 🎉
