A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024
2023 was a superb yr for ethereum.org and its neighborhood — we already really feel a bit of nostalgic, nevertheless it’s vital 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: (nearly) all the pieces 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 study 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 possibly can subscribe to obtain new posts on this weblog on to your electronic mail inbox, courtesy of ethereum.org’s dev workforce.
🤔 Take a look at 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’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 neighborhood are serving to to broaden our quiz library, so in case you’ve bought concepts or want to contribute by creating questions try our contributing information!
📝 ethereum.org Writers Cohort
Attempt something as soon as, twice in case 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 enthusiastic about writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their selection. With greater than 400 contributors and over 540 articles printed, we are able to doubtlessly say that gathering our neighborhood to study collectively, put their concepts on paper and assist one another alongside the best way was the most important spotlight of this initiative! You’ll find 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 considered one of our proudest achievements, with an impression 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 communicate 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 ultimate. Our workforce developed a course of for translating visible content material, which massively enhanced the expertise for everybody visiting our web site who does not communicate 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 workforce have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, enhancing the onboarding expertise for brand spanking new Ethereum customers. Try it out and tell us what you assume 😀.
🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new house on the web
Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core workforce additionally assists with internet improvement throughout different tasks 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 impression this will convey 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 positioning (see some: Layer 2, Builders’ house, Group 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 sources (and inspiration)!
🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Spherical @ GG19
Helped by some nice folks at Gitcoin, we launched a assist spherical to provide again and reward neighborhood members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In whole, 19 people had been 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 packing containers to ethereum.org neighborhood members – socks photos have taken over our Twitter feed… nicely, not less than 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 a bit of 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 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 yr, our workforce redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, enhancing 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 thousands and thousands of views yearly, we can not overlook the engine that retains this ship working! After a variety 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 modification!
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 lots of extra prospects) in our contributors pages.
Thanks as soon as once more to each particular person concerned in making ethereum.org doable. Right here’s to an ideal 2024 🎉
