Today we’re doing an engineering post about our partners at WebRender.io, showcasing how we’ve used their platform to make Medal’s React.js web app more successful for SEO purposes. We’ve been a customer for close to a year.

We implement WebRender.io by calling our deployment URL from our Cloudflare worker, effectively letting WebRender handle all our bot and crawler traffic.

WebRender is also deployed on CloudFlare. So requesting the cached version from the deployment URL is a near-instant call.

Now into some of the major wins we’ve had, and some of the drawbacks we faced.

Win #1: Capped page limit due to JS rendering using up the crawl budget & Performance

At some point last year, Google…

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Experience a new way to watch clips on Medal!

We’ve updated the For You and Following feeds to show you the best content from the games you love.

• See comments as you scroll or tap a comment to read them all, like comments, or leave your own response
• Tap on a user to see a quick preview of their profile and activity
• Double tap for a sweet fire animation
• Swipe through tags to discover more cool clips

Find new and popular games

The new Games tab shows you what everyone on Medal is playing and what games you should…

Most of you listen to music while gaming. The problem is that distributing a clip that has music in it causes a tremendous amount of problems for you, and the platforms you distribute the clips to.

Does your inbox look like this after you post a clip to Twitter/YouTube:

🤔 Okay, but how do I clip with Medal?

• All you have to do is start up a game, hit F8, and you’ve saved the last 15–120 seconds of gameplay! It’s that easy.

📲 Now, Let’s Get to Postin’

• Did you know, the easiest way you can share your clips to Tik Tok is directly through the Medal app? 🤯
• Simply, take a clip, hit “share”, and select Tik Tok 🎉

Hey everyone,

Today we announce good news, and even better news!

We’ve rolled out yet another update and this time it’s changing the way Medal users interact via web 👀

Check out all of the new features on our new fancy schmancy blog:
https://blog.medal.tv/blog/

Be sure to bookmark it to stay up to date on all things gaming.

Clip on you crazy Medal Mavricks!

~Medal Staff

Today, we have a few exciting announcements coming your way.

We’ve partnered up with Tik Tok to provide you all with an even more creative clipping experience.

🎉 1. Medal.tv x Tik Tok

Wondering how you can share your Medal clips with an even larger audience?

What better way than to share all of your 🔥 gaming clips to Tik Tok!

All you need to do is: ⬇️

• 1. Sync your account with our app (Get it on the Play Store / App Store)
• 2. Take a clip
• 3. Find the clip you want to share
• 4. Tap “Share to Tik Tok” 📲

It’s that easy!

Now live at trends.medal.tv

Today is a little bit different. The update we’re launching is not like any of the other updates — it’s an entirely new platform. The type of analytics platform a lot of us at Medal wanted to exist when we were content creators.

It’s for Content Creators
You, as a content creator on Medal, might ask “Where should I invest my time or build my audience?” This will help you pick the right fit.

It’s for Journalists
A journalist may want to quickly see how the game market is trending at the moment to back up…

Medal community — we are super excited to announce that Bookmark Mode (also known as Full Session Recording) has arrived on the platform. We get it. Sometimes you are in such a high tension moment that you forgot to clip. That’s why we are so excited to announce that you can now record your entire gaming session, use your hotkey to bookmark the key moments, and create clips from them afterward.

It’s simple — start a game, press a button to bookmark the moment you later want to go back to, drag the yellow and white sliders around the moment…