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Time for a status update:
My focus on this first month was paying off tech debt, fixing things that were broken on nouns.wtf and removing outdated information.
Tech debt:
By updating to modern technologies and setting up better guard rails the development experience improved considerably.
- Faster builds, quick visual feedback on changes and less boilerplate quickly repays for the time invested.
- Website loading performance also improved noticeably.
- AI assistants are also much more helpful and less error-prone with the updated tech stack and development practices. They're likely the future of this codebase, so that's a very important KPI
- Processed most of the old issues and PRs on the repo, with only a few left to address.
Shoutout to nekofar.eth for his continued contributions! (he did the heavy lifting on the tech stack upgrades)
Broken & outdated things:
- [Explore Nouns](https://nouns.wtf/nouns) section was rebuilt. It was thought out for an era of 100s of Nouns, and didn't work very well with the 1000s we have now (took a very long time to load).
- Older Nouns now load (we missed you, [Noun 0](https://nouns.wtf/noun/0))
- Removed links to several outdated/abandoned resources (nouns center, nouns agora, )
- Brought Japanese translation up to date (Nouns DAO Japan folks, hit me up if the translations can be improved)
New stuff:
- DUNA section on explainers
- Chinese translation
- Footer nav (with direct links to all the important contracts)
- [Brand assets](https://nouns.wtf/brand) page with the main logos & resources
- [Traits](https://nouns.wtf/traits) page with the full list of traits (downloadable as png and svg)
- [Playground](https://nouns.wtf/playground) now allows for transparent bg and exporting as both png and svg
Still lots that can be improved, but IMHO nouns.wtf is at least presentable now.
Now I'll focus a bit on setting up our knowledge base (nouns center replacement) to host all the documentation we direly need.
Bounty program:
To be initiated.
With the current capabilities of AI agents, my feeling is the bounty budget will be best spent in taste and curation:
- creating new articles for the knowledge base (or vet the AI writing), ensuring they're accurate, readable & didactic. (e.g. for dynamic quorum, client incentives, sponsoring props).
- creating new content for the landing page (showcase the DAO achievements, onboard builders, artists, voters, etc)
- design revamps (could def use a fresh coat of paint)
Development bounties will probably be less abundant, since tasks that are well described enough to be a bounty can likely be implemented by Claude. Exceptions might be data-heavy tasks that can benefit from more diligence (new subgraph entries, metrics, etc) or ones that could benefit from creativity and some added weirdness.
That's it for today
Please reach out if you have feedback, ideas, requests 🫡