Feat/article retrospective 2023

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• Adds the article "Retrospective 2023"
• Adds its cover images

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  • Added a 2023 retrospective article documenting key achievements in research, development, and community growth metrics throughout the year.

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A new Markdown article file is added at public/articles/retrospective-2023.md containing front-matter metadata (title, author, date, image, excerpt) and retrospective content covering Research, Development, and Growing Traction sections with achievements in stablecoins, privacy features, and community metrics. This is static documentation content with no code or logic changes.

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Cohort / File(s)	Change Summary
Article Content public/articles/retrospective-2023.md	New Markdown article with front-matter metadata and 2023 retrospective content detailing research progress, development milestones (Djed versions Osiris and Shu, Gluon research), publications, and growth metrics

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

• Verify front-matter format consistency (title, author, date, image, excerpt fields)
• Spot-check spelling, grammar, and factual accuracy of retrospective claims
• Confirm file path and naming conventions align with existing article structure

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• Zahnentferner

Poem

🐰 A retrospective hops into the light,
2023's tale—research, code, and height!
Djed, Gluon, stablecoins so grand,
A year of growth across the land!
Growth metrics bloom, community rings,
What splendid achievements our year brings! ✨

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

public/articles/retrospective-2023.md (1)

9-48: Minor writing style refinements to improve consistency and tone.

The article content is well-organized with clear sections and substantive achievements. A few minor writing style improvements would enhance polish:

1. Line 11: "have a look at" — For American English consistency, prefer "take a look at."
2. Line 11: "even hard to know" — Consider a more direct phrasing, e.g., "difficult to track" or "challenging to capture."
3. Line 18: "completely new protocol" — Strengthen with "entirely new" or simply "novel protocol."
4. Overall: Six exclamation marks across ~1856 characters may feel excessive. Consider reducing to 2–3 for a more measured, professional tone.

🔎 Proposed refinements

- 2023 has been an incredible year for Djed and for the Alliance. We have achieved so much. Since we are a completely decentralized meta-organization that does not even have a "core team", it is even hard to know everything that we have achieved, because we don't always have visibility about everything that everybody else is doing. So, let's have a look at just some of our major 2023 highlights.
+ 2023 has been an incredible year for Djed and for the Alliance. We have achieved so much. Since we are a completely decentralized meta-organization that does not even have a "core team", it is difficult to track everything that we have achieved, because we don't always have visibility about everything that everybody else is doing. So, let's take a look at just some of our major 2023 highlights.

- 1 completely new protocol researched: Gluon!
+ 1 entirely new protocol researched: Gluon.

- ~6x increase in the number of real followers of our Twitter account!
+ ~6x increase in the number of real followers of our Twitter account.

- ~5x increase in the number of participants in our Discord server!
+ ~5x increase in the number of participants in our Discord server.

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[style] ~11-~11: To elevate your writing, try using a synonym here.
Context: ...not even have a “core team”, it is even hard to know everything that we have achieve...

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[locale-violation] ~11-~11: In American English, “take a look” is more commonly used.
Context: ...that everybody else is doing. So, let's have a look at just some of our major 2023 highligh...

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[style] ~18-~18: Consider using a different adverb to strengthen your wording.
Context: ...ilkomeda, and Shu, used in Zephyr. - 1 completely new protocol researched: Gluon! - The ...

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[style] ~48-~48: Using many exclamation marks might seem excessive (in this case: 6 exclamation marks for a text that’s 1856 characters long)
Context: ...er of participants in our Discord server!

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🔇 Additional comments (1)

public/articles/retrospective-2023.md (1)

1-7: Front-matter is well-structured and complete.

The YAML metadata is properly formatted with all necessary fields: title, author, date, image, and excerpt. The image path references /images/2023-in-review.webp—verify that this asset exists and is properly committed alongside this article.

[Zahnentferner]

Hi @john-walter-munene ! I would like to merge this one, but github is saying that there are merge conflicts. Could you resolve them?