From the explosion of the scaling and layer 2 ecosystems to the primary Devcon in three years and The Merge, it has been an thrilling 12 months for Ethereum and ethereum.org. We’ve shipped many impactful options and content material, with hundreds of unbelievable contributors serving to us alongside the way in which.
Let’s dive into our highlights of 2022:
Translation program 🌎
Bringing instructional Ethereum content material to as many languages as doable is vital to our staff’s imaginative and prescient for ethereum.org. Our unbelievable group of contributors has come a good distance since we grew to become a multilingual web site in 2019, and in 2022 we have been thrilled to see continued progress within the variety of folks contributing to our translation program and the variety of readers in non-English languages surging.
2022 in numbers
- 3k new translators joined
- 4.6 million phrases translated
- 28% of visits are in languages aside from English (double 2021’s excessive)
Help us translate ethereum.org
There was rather a lot to rejoice in 2022, however we nonetheless have far to go to ship Ethereum training to the non-English talking world. If you communicate a language apart from English, take a look at the interpretation program and assist make ethereum.org extra accessible to everybody!
Join the interpretation program
Ethereum.org is the work of hundreds of unbelievable contributors, and each contribution helps us construct a terrific useful resource for the group. As with the interpretation program, ethereum.org noticed wonderful engagement in lots of different community-driven initiatives. In 2022 we hit 37,000 Discord members, an unbelievable 7,000 Crowdin members, and the large milestone of 1,000 complete contributors on GitHub!
Specifically, between our rollout of Typescript and the UI library migration, we had over 50 code contributors 🤯!
For content material, we additionally had tens of contributors assist us write new pages for ethereum.org. These included pages on blockchain bridges, DeSci, decentralized id, and lots of extra!
We can’t emphasize sufficient how a lot we respect each contributor ❤️. If you’d wish to contribute and assist us construct ethereum.org in 2023, take a look at our Q1 roadmap.
Open design system 📐
Since May of 2022, we’ve been engaged on creating the ethereum.org design system. It took a whole lot of work to get the design to the place it’s, and we’re excited to share it. In Q1 2023, we’ll start implementing the code to assist the brand new design system.
One of the overarching objectives behind making a design system is to present designers a technique to contribute to the open-source Ethereum group. In 2023, we’ll proceed to work with the group to open up our design processes to the group.
Want to get entangled? Follow alongside in Figma and be a part of the dialog in our #design Discord channel.
Lots of latest pages 🥳
2022 was the most important 12 months but for brand new content material on ethereum.org. We addressed a lot of our content material gaps and delivered informative, well-received pages that have been learn by greater than 1,000,000 folks.
There are too many pages to checklist all the things right here (now greater than 300 pages on the web site!), however a few of the highlights embody:
- Layer 2: teaches customers why Ethereum is scaling by way of rollups and easy methods to onboard to layer 2.
- Run a node: highlights the worth of operating a node (each to folks operating their very own node and to Ethereum usually) and provides readers step-by-step sources to start out operating their very own nodes.
- Staking hub: demystifies the staking course of and the important thing advantages of various staking approaches.
- Introduction to Web3: explains the rules of Web3, its philosophy, and present limitations.
- Energy consumption: exhibits Ethereum’s present and historic vitality consumption and the affect The Merge had.
In 2023, we’ll proceed working with our group and subject-matter consultants throughout the Ethereum ecosystem to fill our gaps and ship high-value content material to our readers. If you’d like to assist, attain out to us on Discord.
You can see what we’re engaged on subsequent in our quarterly roadmap, or you may create a problem if there may be content material you’d wish to see added to ethereum.org.
Find pockets revamp 👛
Another big milestone in 2022 was the revamp of our wallets content material. A big portion of visitors to ethereum.org is from customers seeking to get their first pockets. On our earlier discover a pockets web page, it took a whole lot of work to check the totally different options wallets supplied, making it arduous for customers to resolve which pockets greatest suited their wants.
After a number of design iterations, we landed on creating an e-commerce-like expertise—permitting customers to filter wallets by particular options, examine options between wallets, and choose person personas with really helpful options.
Check out our discover a pockets web page. We love suggestions; tell us your ideas on our Discord.
Learn hub and study quizzes 🧠
There is a continuing stream of latest customers attempting to study Ethereum. In 2022, we spent a whole lot of time focussing on creating a greater expertise for these customers. Creating easy-to-understand content material is a driving precept of all the things we work on, however these two initiatives have been particularly centered on this subset of our customers.
Learn hub
We created the Learn Hub as a result of customers wanted assist discovering a place to begin for studying about Ethereum with out feeling overwhelmed by the quantity of knowledge obtainable and the disconnectedness of the totally different pages on our web site. The Learn Hub is a guided pathway for customers, ranging from the fundamentals of what cryptocurrencies are, strolling them by way of getting began on Ethereum with their first pockets, educating them how the Ethereum protocol works, and the way they’ll get entangled within the ecosystem.
Learning quizzes
As nicely as offering a structured studying path with the Learn Hub, we wished to make studying about Ethereum extra enjoyable for customers, enhance their retention, and gamify the method. To do that, we created studying quizzes. Each quiz has a number of questions, with a number of potential solutions with explanations after submitting a solution to assist educate customers once they get questions unsuitable.
We at present have studying quizzes on eight pages and plan to increase it with extra performance and pages in 2023. They’re a ton of enjoyable! Check them out:
The Merge 🌳
Undoubtedly the most important Ethereum occasion of 2022 was The Merge. As a part of getting ready The Merge, we audited all the web site for content material that will require modifications after Ethereum switched to proof-of-stake.
In addition to auditing and updating tons of of pages of current content material, we created many new pages to mirror the modifications that have been made like: proof-of-stake incessantly requested questions, proof-of-stake vs proof-of-work, how blocks are produced on proof-of-stake, and lots of extra.
For full particulars, see the three giant initiatives we labored on associated to The Merge:
Other initiatives 🏃♂️
As nicely as our core product on ethereum.org, we spent a whole lot of time serving to out on different initiatives central to the success of Ethereum. We received’t spotlight every of them in-depth, however it is best to test them out!
Looking forward 👀
With a lot achieved, the ethereum.org group has a lot to be pleased with in 2022. Thanks once more to the hundreds of contributors who bought concerned!
Like Ethereum itself, we nonetheless have an extended technique to go if we need to proceed constructing essentially the most complete and inclusive useful resource for Ethereum on the web.
For that, we want your assist! We’ve simply launched our Q1 product roadmap. Check it out, and tell us the way you’d wish to get entangled 🙏
