A glance again at 2023, and a glimpse at what lies forward in 2024

2023 was a wonderful yr for ethereum.org and its group — we already really feel a bit of nostalgic, but it surely’s vital 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: (nearly) every part 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 may subscribe to obtain new posts on this weblog on to your e-mail inbox, courtesy of ethereum.org’s dev staff.

🤔 Check your Ethereum information with Quizzes

A studying portal with no studying sport? Properly, 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 group are serving to to develop our quiz library, so for those who’ve received 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 for those who prefer it — and this is the reason we hosted two editions of ethereum.org’s Writers Cohort: a 3-week on-line program for folk interested by writing about any Ethereum-related matter of their alternative. With greater than 400 contributors and over 540 articles printed, we are able to doubtlessly say that gathering our group to study collectively, put their concepts on paper and assist one another alongside the best way was the largest spotlight of this initiative! You could 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 influence and scale so spectacular it deserved its personal recap put up!

🔡 Translated photographs and diagrams

If it wasn’t apparent, we strongly imagine the expertise of people that don’t converse 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 very best. Our staff 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 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 staff have designed user-friendly guides to pockets utilization, bettering the onboarding expertise for brand new Ethereum customers. Check it out and tell us what you assume 😀.

### 🏠 Geth and Solidity: a brand new residence on the web

Alongside sustaining ethereum.org, our core staff 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 end result – and extra importantly, the influence this could carry 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’ residence, Group Hub). Higher than that, these artworks are open-source, and we encourage their use by the Ethereum group. Take a look at our belongings web page for extra sources (and inspiration)!

🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Spherical @ GG19

Helped by some nice individuals at Gitcoin, we launched a assist spherical to offer again and reward group members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. In whole, 19 people have been awarded, and this initiative validated our want 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 packing containers to ethereum.org group members – socks footage have taken over our Twitter feed… nicely, at the least we are able to all agree they have been fairly fashionable!

🎲 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 people might disconnect a bit of from the hecticness of web3 occasions’ and spend the time chilling and enjoying 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 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 staff redesigned the web site’s menu navigation, bettering the knowledge structure for higher consumer navigation. We’re rolling this out early Q1, so hold a watch out for this transformation.

🧰 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 operating! After quite a 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, 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 potentialities) 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 🎉