A look back at 2023 and a look at what awaits us in 2024
2023 was an excellent year for the team behind the ethereum.org”>ethereum.org websiteand its community: We're already feeling a little nostalgic, but it's important to make space to celebrate the things the ethereum.org community helped us build in 2023 and continue the momentum in 2024.
In that spirit, we've put together a roundup of our 2023 highlights from the ethereum.org community – enjoy reading!
The interesting aspects
ethereum.org Translatathon
With 56 languages, 217 participants, and 1.47 million words () translated in a week-long online contest, the Translatathon set the tone for the importance of continually advancing accessibility in Web3, one word at a time. It is one of our proudest achievements, with such impressive impact and scale that it deserved. your own summary post!
Translated images and diagrams.
If it weren't obvious, we firmly believe that the experience of people who don't speak English should be the same as those who do. So, we realized that having our pages translated into Spanish (for example) but leaving all the diagrams and images in English was not ideal. Our team developed a process for translating visual content, which greatly improved the experience for everyone who visits our site and doesn't speak English.
Interactive Wallet Tutorials
Are you eager to start your web3 journey but a little worried about jumping right in and downloading a dapp? We've all been there before. With that in mind, the ethereum.org team has designed easy-to-use guides for using wallets, improving the onboarding experience for new ethereum users. ethereum.org/wallets#sim”>test it and ethereum-org”>let us know what you think .
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A learning portal without a learning game? Well, that was ethereum.org before June 2023… now, you can test your ethereum knowledge by taking one (or all) of the eight interactive quizzes available at ethereum.org/quizzes”>Test center. The community is helping to expand our quiz library, so if you have ideas or ethereum.org/contributing/quizzes”>You would like to contribute by creating questions. Check out our contribution guide!
ethereum.org Writer Cohort
Try anything once, twice if you like it. and that's why we hosted two editions of ethereum.org Writers Cohort: a 3-week online program for people interested in writing on any ethereum-related topic of their choice. With over 400 participants and over 540 articles published, we can definitely say that bringing our community together to learn together, put their ideas on paper, and support each other along the way was the highlight of this initiative. You can find the #ETHWriters Summary On twitter.
Protocol roadmap: (almost) everything in one place
The ethereum roadmap is fluid and constantly adapting, but we're keeping an eye on the latest proposals from builders around the world and have created a comprehensive hub detailing the ethereum protocol roadmap. Curious about proposed ideas, upcoming changes, technical updates, and how ethereum is developing? ethereum.org/roadmap”>Head to ethereum.org/roadmap for more information..
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Geth and Solidity: a new home on the Internet
In addition to maintaining ethereum.org, our core team also helps with web development on other EF community projects. Over the past year, we have worked on the design and implementation of new websites to ethereum.org/”>ir-ethereum and Solidity and we couldn't be prouder of the result and, more importantly, the impact this can bring to the ethereum ecosystem.
New year, new illustrations
We entered our shining era by commissioning eight new illustrations for ethereum.org, which now appear on pages across the site (check out some: ethereum.org/layer-2″>Layer 2, ethereum.org/developers”>Developer House, ethereum.org/community”>Community Center). Better yet, these artworks are open source and we recommend their use by the ethereum community. ethereum.org/en/assets”>Check out our assets page For more resources (and inspiration)!
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ethereum.org Contributors Round @GG19
With the help of some great people at Gitcoin, we launched a support round to give back and reward community members who made impactful contributions on ethereum.org. Total, 19 people were awardedAnd this initiative validated our desire to find more ways to return value to our community in 2024!
New merchandising, who is it?
A token of gratitude to our contributors: In November, we sent over 100 gift boxes to members of the ethereum.org community. socks pictures have taken over our Twitter account… well, at least we can all agree they were pretty classy!
Hack and play in the infinite garden
In mid-2023, an idea began to emerge: what if we organized a meetup where people could disconnect for a bit from the hustle and bustle of web3 events and spend time relaxing and playing cards or board games with the community? With that premise we organize (in)finite games on Devconnect IST and feedback from the ethereum community was overwhelmingly positive. Unfortunately (or not), our team was too busy playing Uno and forgot to take a photo… I guess we should organize a second edition in mar devcon so?
Navigation redesign
ethereum.org is always a work in progress. Before saying goodbye to an eventful year, our team redesigned the website's navigation menu, improving the information architecture for better user navigation. We will be rolling this out at the beginning of Q1, so stay tuned for this change.
Complete migration to NextJS
With over 16,000 pages and tens of millions of views each year, we can't overlook the engine that keeps this boat running! After much sweat, many tears, and countless PRs, we successfully migrated ethereum.org's tech stack to NextJS, paving the way for improved site performance, accessibility, and scalability. We are excited to offer many new features in 2024 enabled by this change!
So what's next?
ethereum/ethereum-org-website/issues/12005″>Our roadmap for the first quarter of 2024 It is now available to receive comments, suggestions and contributions. Take a look at how you can get started ethereum.org/contributing/”>contributing to ethereum.org (for example, writing or revising content, creating new designs, translating the website, developing new features or fixing errors, and many more possibilities) ethereum.org/contributing/”>on our collaborator pages.
Thanks once again to every person involved in making ethereum.org”>ethereum.org possible. Here's to a great 2024
