Plain Text Sports Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Give It the Craigslist Test

  If you're into sports also check out https://plaintextsports.com Amazingly well done. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months 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 / about 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: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

  I run Plain Text Sports (https://plaintextsports.com/). I got sick of waiting for ESPN to load so I made a site with the goal of providing immediate access to what people actually care about: sports scores. It's pretty fully featured at this point, supporting the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Premier League and Champions League, college basketball and college football, WNBA, NWSL, and the World Cup. And for a lot of... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Eredivisie standings after Gameweek 16

  Over here in the States, I've been using https://plaintextsports.com/ to follow NBA live scores. Source: over 1 year ago

• Show HN: FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)

  It has a great World Cup presentation which can display by [group or by date](https://plaintextsports.com/world-cup/2022/schedule). The page sizes are something like 3 magnitudes smaller than ESPN.com, especially great for when you're actually at the game and the network is bogged down in the arena. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• HTML is all you need to make a website

  It's amazing how snappy computers from the mid-90s actually are. https://plaintextsports.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• NFL app is trash

  This might not meet your needs but for simplicity I don't think https://plaintextsports.com/ can be beaten. Source: over 1 year ago

• Live scores app

  Otherwise use this which has no ads and trackers. Source: over 1 year ago

• Apple’s Hidden Flight Tracker App

  Http://plaintextsports.com has become one of my favorite websites for every single reason you just went off about. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Guide on How Long Can You Safely Store Food

  Hey, at least we can get the Sportsball scores in plain text. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Daily Discussion Thread + Game Thread Index

  If you just want fast scores try https://plaintextsports.com/. Source: about 2 years ago

• ESPN is the worst for checking scores, found a better option

  If anyone was also as annoyed as me, I now use https://plaintextsports.com/ . On mobile it's awesome because you can create a home screen shortcut on iphone or android so it looks like an app and it loads 1000x faster than espn because its all plain text. Highly recommend. This is not something I built so hopefully this doesnt get classified as self promotion, just trying to help others not have a shitty score... Source: about 2 years ago

• Jless – a command-line JSON viewer (written in Rust)

  Author here! When I originally submitted it, it didn't get a lot of traction (it got on the front-page via the second chance pool a couple days later), and I definitely regretted not including "written in Rust" in the title. I'm acutely aware of HN's love of Rust, and the subsequent grumbling about always bringing it up that something is written in Rust, so I left it out with the false illusion that not mentioning... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago