Plain Text Sports mentions (16)

• Give It the Craigslist Test

  If you're into sports also check out https://plaintextsports.com Amazingly well done. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• FOSS Sports scores app?

  It isn't FOSS, but plaintextsports.com is extremely minimal and reliable. Source: about 1 year ago

• Text Only News Websites

  For sports, ESPN does have http://www.espn.com/nba/lite/scoreboard, but most of the links go back to the normal website. It may have been been more robust in the past, but I don't imagine anyone works on it anymore. It seems like the developer listed in the credits (http://www.espn.com/espn/lite/credits) last worked there in 2002!! So if you're looking for a sports alternative, https://plaintextsports.com (which I... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS

  A personal gripe with progressive web apps: they cache the website!! A lot of people have requested that I make a progressive web app for https://plaintextsports.com. I've looked into it, but it fundamentally doesn't work, because it caches the home page. My website doesn't load any data via JavaScript; it just relies on the HTML page updating every 30 seconds, so when the home page is cached, the website just... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Yahoo Sports app suddenly only showing "recent career" when viewing a player's profile, what the hell? This is the most mildly infuriating thing ever. What app do you guys use for boxscores and player stats?

  For box scores nothing beats https://plaintextsports.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

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