That's actually false. It really was intended that you see the name of the medal (just not the description) for the secret medals, and many older games were designed with this in mind, with literally no other hints as to how to obtain. And everything just shows as "secret medal" even on other people's profiles (if you don't have the medal yourself).

They really did break the intended purpose of things by making that site-wide change.

The idea was that the name was the hint, and then after you earned it you got the description. So literally as-is defeats the purpose. You're then reliant on other people (who already got the medal before that time) to tell you, and/or just insane luck.

Okay, I tried every permutation I could think of and played in two browsers, did they break the "beat the game" medal with the update?

Well let's see. I recently unlocked it, so no.

That person's games have a habit of sometimes not awarding medals, however. So you may need to try it again a few times. Medal obtained on Firefox browser.

Already got most medals on this one - I'm just looking for "KFC", "only 5$ each" and "To mod, or not to mod?"

UPDATE: Found all of them - here's the interview numbers I used to get every medal:

Open Interview #001 for "FUL of P"

Open Interview #004 for "The bees Justin..."

Open Interview #005 for "HE WOBBLES..."

Open Interview #006 for "This is madness!"

Open Interview #009 for "Mariachi Mang"

Open Interview #015 for "orsppA"

Open Interview #033 for "DEAD!"

Open Interview #039 for "Sexual Decapoda"

Open Interview #047 for "Secret pixel handshake" and "YEAAAAHHHHHHHHHH..."

Open Interview #048 for "only $5 each"

Open Interview #056 for "Paradox"

Open Interview #060 for "EDD's"

Open Interview #064 for "KFC"

Open Interview #077 for "Supa Sumba Pawdy."

Open Interview #078 for "THE KING OF THE PORTAL!"

Open Interview #081 for "PLEASE HELP!"

Open Interview #084 for "YEAH..."

Open Interview #098 for "Hans off!"

Open Interview #103 for "to mod, or not to mod?"

Open Interview #111 for "Psycho?"