Plain Text Sports
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Plain Text Sports
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#2I like it!
Sites like NHL.com or ESPN.com are borderline hostile navigating this info.
It is reminiscent of the morning sports pages in the newspaper I would read each morning as a kid.
The one improvement would be if there was page that summarized the league. i.e. Click on NHL and it lists scores, games that day, standings, and possibly scoring leaders. That would be capture all of the important points on one clean page, as the newspaper used to.
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#3I like it! Sites like NHL.com or ESPN.com are borderline hostile navigating this info. It is reminiscent of the morning sports pages in the newspaper I would read each morning as a kid. The one improvement would be if there was page that summarized the league. i.e. Click on NHL and it lists scores, games that day, standings, and possibly scoring leaders. That would be capture all of the important points on one clean…
> Sites like NHL.com
Unfortunately, in order for me to avoid that hell, I use the mobile app and wish I didn't have to.
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#4I hate using google but the experience of getting MLB scores and game status from google is so much better than actual MLB websites. I would totally use this instead!!
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#5Does it really need to override my font size? 13px is too small for my display. Of course removing the override breaks it because it has a max-width set in px. But why does it have a max-width? It is important not to have long lines of text but there are no long lines on this page, each box has it's own size. So by removing font-size and max-width rules this is far more readable for me. And while I'm at it don't force Courier, not a great font, just use monospace and get the user's default monospace font.
But I find this quite funny, while it is obviously going for a plain-text appearance it actually uses javascript and a lot of "complex" CSS like flexbox making it actually scale nicely to different size screens once the max-width is removed. But if the implementation is actually using these complex features why target a plain-text look? Maybe it is a personal preference but for me simple line borders are a lot less noisy and distracting than +------+.
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#6This feels very much like teletekst, which is arguably the best thing on TV worldwide.
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#7Where do you get your data from? I've found sports data (especially odds/lines) to be overly expensive when trying to build hobby apps.
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#8I'd love something like this for European football leagues. The "best" I've found is https://livescore.com but for a while they stopped working on iPhone (they really wanted you to download their app) and I'm quite sure they're probably full of trackers and stuff.
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#9Where do you get your data from? I've found sports data (especially odds/lines) to be overly expensive when trying to build hobby apps.
Betting data is expensive because people are building trading/arb bots with that data.
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#10I hate using google but the experience of getting MLB scores and game status from google is so much better than actual MLB websites. I would totally use this instead!!
Also one of the few things that Siri seems to be good at.
As long as you are only interested in certain very large sports teams. (She has no idea there are any minor league baseball teams.)
But at least if you ask for a score and the game hasn't started yet, she's smart enough to tell you the time it starts, rather than giving you the scores for yesterday's game. Though, maybe she should do both for completeness.