It depends what you mean by “rendering”. Of course, the visuals are only shown to users, and that happens on the browser.

But the browser uses HTML/CSS/JS to create the visuals (I’ll call this a “bundle”). There are different strategies for how this bundle is created. The classic way is to just create it on the server on a per-request basis, and send it to the client. These ways I’ve listed are other ways.

As a stadia user, I loved it.

It made gaming accessible in a way that GeForce definitely doesn’t. It felt more like a console than GeForce, which feels like… well honestly like emulation.

I think they had 3 solid strategies, each of which they fucked up in execution. First they were trying to compete against consoles (hence the studio acquisitions as they were trying to make exclusives). Then they gave up. Then they were trying to compete against steam by being a Netflix-like library online. But then they gave up. Then they tried to build a new “cloud gaming” market (maybe whitelabel to existing game companies).Then they gave up that too.

Throughout the whole time, they were great from a user perspective.

Agreed! This is annoying for me as well, but still I like it a lot. Better than Reddit, even.