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Stadia Enhanced Explained

Christopher Klay edited this page Apr 5, 2021 · 1 revision

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Stadia Enhanced

What is Stadia Enhanced?

Stadia Enhanced is a entirely free to use, open-source, non-tracking (zero user data is being collected) extension for any Chromium based (Chrome, Edge, Opera, ..) browser that adds features and benefits to the user interface of Google Stadia. The project started as a small userscript provided via social media to help with performance issues related to stream settings of the service, but quickly began also delivering much needed adjustments to the user interface.

What are the goals of Stadia Enhanced?

The goal is to smooth out and improve the experience for the user, while keeping the original theme and design choices intact. The project isn't trying to basically add a new skin onto Stadia, but to enhance what's already there - as lightweight and stable as possible. Integrating itself into the existing website allows the project to easily adapt to changes, resulting in fast patches - even if the entire interface would suddenly change, the project can adapt in just a matter of days and be fully functional again. Drastically changing one specific part of a service while other parts are unaffected (i.e. changing the entire user interface while accessing Stadia via the browser only, with smartphone and TV having the 'old' interface) would drastically cut into the cohesiveness of the user experience, which is why Stadia Enhanced injects itself into the existing part and expands it.

If you believe Google added something new and it turns out to be part of this project, it's doing it's job.

Who is working on it?

The actual development and publishing of the project is almost purely done by myself, Christopher Klay, in my free time.

However, the project wouldn't exist without the heavy support from people translating the project, posting feedback and ideas, reporting bugs, issues and instabilities, coffee (donations) and people just sharing/enjoying it. It's a community project that bundles the user feedback into a extension and i'm basically just here to package it.