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Comment by boomboomsubban | Hacker News Reader

A solid replacement for my standard sports site, Wikipedia.

And wow! A real page view counter, with under 2000 hits so far! I feel like a kid again.

edit it might be nice to clarify the time zone used in the games.

for the World Cup and most other leagues, the platonic ideal of speed/freshness, information density, and legibility, is https://plaintextsports.com . 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.

As a terminal lover this is amazing.

I'm curious how you loaded this in the terminal, because for me, curl spit out a ton of HTML and very little plain text. I suppose with curl only asking for `/`, I should be happy with what I got, but even when asking for plain text, I got HTML. I didn't mean to go all "no true Scotsman" on this reply, but I wish something called Plain Text Sports had actually returned plain text to me in a terminal.

I only meant that I love text based interfaces. I only know of one other example that looks good in both terminal and web: https://wttr.in

Wikipedia beats megacorp giants like Espn at displaying sports related information in so many metrics and it's not even close. Really a great example of perverted incentives. Espn is trying to show ads, while Wikipedia is trying to show information.

Hardly the case for live games. Look at the EPSN drive graphics for the NFL for instance, where it shows the gain/loss for every play and the tooltip has tons of information about what happened. The shot heatmap for basketball is another great example of ESPN adding real value even if you’ve been watching the game.

looks to be in the time zone of the current browser's locale. it says the correct time for me and i don't live anywhere near the middle east(or perhaps the person that made the site is also in my timezone so double check)

It says the correct time for me too.

I'm not that close to Qatar, and I suspect not that close to you either.

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