Hello Ethereum community! It’s been a few months since our last update, so it’s time we let you know what’s been going on at ethereum.org.
First, now we are using Gatsby
Under the hood at ethereum.org we have switched from Vuepress to gatsby. Now this won’t be immediately obvious to anyone visiting the website, but it will help us scale ethereum.org. Our team prefers React (lots of people do) and has experience with MDX, so we should be able to deliver better content, faster.
If you are up to date on your Eth2 timeline, you could say that Gatsby is our Phase 0. It is setting us up for future success.
If you’ve never been a fan of Vuepress and Gatsby is more your thing, we’d love to have you. contribute. This new section describes the ways you can help ethereum.org grow and improve.
cool artwork
We have been working with some independent artists to bring Ethereum to life. With nods to Doge, the open source bazaar, and the lego-money meme, we hope you like the new vibe on the site.
You are free to use any of the illustrations, they are for the community.
New page layouts
We are also working on revamping our onboarding content, such as pages that introduce you to Ethereum, Ether (ETH), wallets, and dapps. In the coming months we want to make ethereum.org a better resource for new users. To that end, we’ve been adding more information to these pages, making them feel less like a “Github README“, and add useful features.
One feature we recently launched is our Get ETH page. This helps you find wallets and exchanges that you can use to buy ETH, depending on where you live. We hope this will prevent new users from trying to sign up for an exchange they won’t be able to use, or downloading a wallet from which they can’t buy ETH. It’s all about reducing that friction!
So far we have sent:
Check them out and tell us what you think!
a new frame
Part of our duty at ethereum.org is to shed light on the fantastic work the community is doing, from dapps to wallets to articles. But we also want to make sure that we direct users to information that doesn’t confuse or overwhelm them.
This is sometimes a bit of a balancing act. So we’ve created a framework to help us determine what to list and what not to list. The framework covers wallets and dapps, stating our inclusion criteria and our reasons.
The framework discusses a product’s commitment to security and support, as well as some cool features that can help new users.
As with everything ethereum.org, we welcome feedback from the community if you have any ideas.
ethereum.org reaches 30 languages
You may have already read about this in a previous post, but now we provide content to users in 30 languages.
467 volunteers from 52 language groups have helped us get here. It’s been an amazing community effort, see you in the next 30!
You can read more about the translation program and this milestone at the publication of the celebration.
Whats Next?
While many of you have been reaping returns, we have been sowing the seeds of some exciting new content.
In the coming months we will send out pages covering:
- portfolios
- dapps
- Eth2
- Ethereum development documentation
- and much more…
So we’re going to be busy, until next time.
Involve
ethereum.org it is a community project. If you’d like to help, check out our pages on contributing or our road map.
