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 1000’s of unimaginable contributors serving to us alongside the best way.
Let’s dive into our highlights of 2022:
Translation program 🌎
Bringing academic Ethereum content material to as many languages as attainable is vital to our staff’s imaginative and prescient for ethereum.org. Our unimaginable neighborhood of contributors has come a good distance since we turned a multilingual web site in 2019, and in 2022 we have been thrilled to see continued development within the variety of individuals 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)
Assist us translate ethereum.org
There was quite a bit to have a good time in 2022, however we nonetheless have far to go to ship Ethereum schooling to the non-English talking world. In the event you converse a language moreover English, try the interpretation program and assist make ethereum.org extra accessible to everybody!
Be part of the interpretation program
Ethereum.org is the work of 1000’s of unimaginable contributors, and each contribution helps us construct an amazing useful resource for the neighborhood. 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 unimaginable 7,000 Crowdin members, and the massive milestone of 1,000 complete contributors on GitHub!
Particularly, 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 plenty of extra!
We will’t emphasize sufficient how a lot we recognize every contributor ❤️. In the event you’d wish to contribute and assist us construct ethereum.org in 2023, try our Q1 roadmap.
Open design system 📐
Since Could of 2022, we’ve been engaged on creating the ethereum.org design system. It took a number 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 help the brand new design system.
One of many overarching targets behind making a design system is to provide designers a option to contribute to the open-source Ethereum neighborhood. In 2023, we’ll proceed to work with the neighborhood to open up our design processes to the neighborhood.
Wish to become involved? Observe alongside in Figma and be a part of the dialog in our #design Discord channel.
A lot of new pages 🥳
2022 was the largest 12 months but for brand new content material on ethereum.org. We addressed lots of our content material gaps and delivered informative, well-received pages that have been learn by greater than 1,000,000 individuals.
There are too many pages to record all the things right here (now greater than 300 pages on the web site!), however a number of the highlights embrace:
- Layer 2: teaches customers why Ethereum is scaling via rollups and find out how to onboard to layer 2.
- Run a node: highlights the worth of operating a node (each to individuals operating their very own node and to Ethereum usually) and provides readers step-by-step assets 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 ideas of Web3, its philosophy, and present limitations.
- Vitality consumption: exhibits Ethereum’s present and historic vitality consumption and the affect The Merge had.
In 2023, we’ll proceed working with our neighborhood and subject-matter specialists inside the Ethereum ecosystem to fill our gaps and ship high-value content material to our readers. In the event you’d like to assist, attain out to us on Discord.
You possibly can see what we’re engaged on subsequent in our quarterly roadmap, or you may create a difficulty if there’s content material you’d wish to see added to ethereum.org.
Discover pockets revamp 👛
One other large milestone in 2022 was the revamp of our wallets content material. A big portion of site visitors to ethereum.org is from customers trying to get their first pockets. On our earlier discover a pockets web page, it took a number of work to check the completely different options wallets provided, making it exhausting for customers to determine 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 useful options.
Try our discover a pockets web page. We love suggestions; tell us your ideas on our Discord.
Be taught hub and be taught quizzes 🧠
There’s a fixed stream of recent customers attempting to find out about Ethereum. In 2022, we spent a number 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.
Be taught hub
We created the Be taught 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 accessible and the disconnectedness of the completely different pages on our web site. The Be taught Hub is a guided pathway for customers, ranging from the fundamentals of what cryptocurrencies are, strolling them via getting began on Ethereum with their first pockets, instructing them how the Ethereum protocol works, and the way they’ll become involved within the ecosystem.
Studying quizzes
In addition to offering a structured studying path with the Be taught 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. Every quiz has a number of questions, with a number of potential solutions with explanations after submitting a solution to assist train customers once they get questions unsuitable.
We at present have studying quizzes on eight pages and plan to develop it with extra performance and pages in 2023. They’re a ton of enjoyable! Test them out:
The Merge 🌳
Undoubtedly the largest Ethereum occasion of 2022 was The Merge. As a part of making ready The Merge, we audited your entire web site for content material that may require modifications after Ethereum switched to proof-of-stake.
Along with auditing and updating a whole bunch of pages of current content material, we created many new pages to replicate the modifications that have been made like: proof-of-stake ceaselessly requested questions, proof-of-stake vs proof-of-work, how blocks are produced on proof-of-stake, and plenty of extra.
For full particulars, see the three massive initiatives we labored on associated to The Merge:
Different tasks 🏃♂️
In addition to our core product on ethereum.org, we spent a number of time serving to out on different tasks central to the success of Ethereum. We received’t spotlight every of them in-depth, however you must examine them out!
Wanting forward 👀
With a lot achieved, the ethereum.org neighborhood has a lot to be pleased with in 2022. Thanks once more to the 1000’s of contributors who received concerned!
Like Ethereum itself, we nonetheless have a protracted option to go if we wish to proceed constructing essentially the most complete and inclusive useful resource for Ethereum on the web.
For that, we’d like your assist! We’ve simply launched our Q1 product roadmap. Test it out, and tell us the way you’d wish to become involved 🙏
