Ethereum.org year in review

A look backmost astatine 2023, and a glimpse astatine what lies up successful 2024

2023 was an fantabulous twelvemonth for the squad down the ethereum.org website, and its assemblage — we already consciousness a small nostalgic, but it's important to marque abstraction for celebrating the things the ethereum.org assemblage helped america physique successful 2023 and proceed the momentum successful 2024.

In that spirit, we prepared a recap with our 2023 highlights of the ethereum.org assemblage — bask the reading!

The highlights

📚 ethereum.org Translatathon

56 languages, 217 participants, and 1.47 cardinal words (🤯) translated successful a one-week online competition, the Translatathon acceptable the code for the value of continuously fostering accessibility successful Web3, 1 connection astatine a time. It is 1 of our proudest achievements, with an interaction and standard truthful awesome it deserved its ain recap post!

🔡 Translated images and diagrams

If it wasn’t obvious, we powerfully judge the acquisition of radical who bash not talk English should beryllium adjacent to those who do. So, we realized that having our pages translated into Spanish (for example) but leaving each the diagrams and images successful English was little than ideal. Our squad developed a process for translating ocular content, which massively enhanced the acquisition for everyone visiting our tract who doesn't talk English.

👛 Interactive wallet walkthroughs

Eager to commencement your web3 travel but a small acrophobic astir jumping consecutive and downloading a dapp? We each person been determination before. With that successful mind, the ethereum.org squad person designed user-friendly guides to wallet usage, improving the onboarding acquisition for caller Ethereum users. Test it out and let america cognize what you think 😀.

🤔 Test your Ethereum cognition with Quizzes

A learning portal without a learning game? Well, that was ethereum.org earlier June 2023… now, you tin trial your Ethereum cognition by taking 1 (or all) of the 8 interactive quizzes disposable connected the Quiz Hub. The assemblage are helping to grow our quiz library, truthful if you’ve got ideas oregon would similar to lend by creating questions cheque retired our contributing guide!

✍️ ethereum.org Writers Cohort

Try thing once, doubly if you similar it — and this is wherefore we hosted 2 editions of ethereum.org's Writers Cohort: a 3-week online programme for folks funny successful penning astir immoderate Ethereum-related taxable of their choice. With much than 400 participants and implicit 540 articles published, we tin doubtlessly accidental that gathering our assemblage to larn together, enactment their ideas connected insubstantial and enactment each different on the mode was the biggest item of this initiative! You tin find the #ETHWriters recap connected Twitter.

🛣️ Protocol roadmap: (almost) everything successful 1 place

Ethereum's roadmap is fluid and adapts constantly, but we're tuned into the latest proposals from builders astir the world, and person built a broad hub detailing detailing Ethereum's protocol roadmap. Curious astir projected ideas, upcoming changes, method upgrades, and however Ethereum is developed? Head to ethereum.org/roadmap to larn more.

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🏠 Geth and Solidity: a caller location connected the internet

Alongside maintaining ethereum.org, our halfway squad besides assists with web improvement crossed different projects successful the EF community. Over the past year, we've worked connected designing and deploying caller websites for go-ethereum and Solidity and we couldn't beryllium prouder of the effect - and much importantly, the interaction this tin bring to the Ethereum ecosystem.

🖼️ New year, caller illustrations

We entered our glow-up epoch by commissioning 8 caller illustrations to ethereum.org, present featured connected pages crossed the tract (see some: Layer 2, Developers' home, Community Hub). Better than that, these artworks are open-source, and we promote their usage by the Ethereum community. Check retired our assets page for much resources (and inspiration)!

🤲 Ethereum.org Contributors Round @ GG19

Helped by immoderate large radical astatine Gitcoin, we launched a enactment circular to springiness backmost and reward assemblage members who made impactful contributions connected ethereum.org. In total, 19 individuals were awarded, and this inaugural validated our tendency to find much ways to instrumentality worth to our assemblage successful 2024!

🧦 New merch, who dis?

A token of appreciation to our contributors: successful November, we shipped implicit 100 swag boxes to ethereum.org assemblage members - socks pictures person taken implicit our Twitter feed… well, astatine slightest we tin each hold they were beauteous stylish!

🎲 Hacking and playing successful the infinite garden

Halfway done 2023, an thought started to look — what if we hosted a gathering wherever folks could disconnect a small from the hecticness of web3 events' and walk the clip chilling and playing cards/board games with the community? With that premise, we organized (in)finite games astatine Devconnect IST and the feedback from the Ethereum assemblage was overwhelmingly positive. Sadly (or not), our squad was excessively engaged playing Uno they forgot to drawback a picture… conjecture we should signifier a 2nd variation astatine Devcon SEA then?

🧭 Navigation redesign

ethereum.org is ever a enactment successful progress. Before we bid farewell to an eventful year, our squad redesigned the website’s paper navigation, improving the accusation architecture for amended idiosyncratic navigation. We’re rolling this retired aboriginal Q1, truthful support an oculus retired for this change.

🧰 Complete migration to NextJS

With implicit 16,000 pages and tens of millions of views each year, we cannot place the motor that keeps this vessel running! After a batch of sweat, galore tears, and countless PRs, we successfully migrated ethereum.org tech stack to NextJS, paving the mode for improved tract performance, accessibility, and scalability. We’re excited to vessel galore caller features successful 2024 enabled by this change!

So, what is next?

Our Q1 2024 roadmap is already retired for feedback, suggestions, and contributions. Have a look connected however you tin commencement contributing to ethereum.org (e.g. penning oregon reviewing content, creating caller designs, translating the website, processing caller features oregon fixing bugs, and galore much possibilities) in our contributors pages.

Thank you erstwhile again to each idiosyncratic progressive successful making ethereum.org possible. Here’s to a large 2024 🎉