PlainTextSports

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT! THERE'S NOW AN OFFICIAL PLAIN TEXT SPORTS MOBILE APP! GET IT NOW AND NEVER WAIT FOR SCORES TO LOAD AGAIN! plaintextsports.com/app

Congratulations to the 2026 World Baseball Classic Champions, Venezuela!

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World Baseball Classic, now on plaintextsports!!

Sorry, I'm working on it, should be up by tomorrow morning!

UNITED STATES WINS GOLD

UNITED STATES WINS GOLD

Winter Olympics on PTS, now featuring a sortable medal table!

Individual event schedules for the Olympics now posted on plaintextsports! Medal table coming soon hopefully.

Congratulations to the Super Bowl LX Champions, the Seattle Seahawks!!

Ok, this broke things. Will have it fixed by ~7PM before this evening’s games.

The Olympics are on plaintextsports!!! (At least just the schedule for now. Hopefully a more detailed schedule page and a medal count in the next few days.)

Congratulations to the 2025 National Champions, the Indiana Hoosiers!

Go Packers

Schedule for the Wild Card Round has been released. #5 Houston at #4 Baltimore/Pittsburgh is scheduled for Monday night at 8PM EST.

To temper expectations: definitely won't have live scores/results for most (any?) events—maybe hockey, but that's it. But definitely WILL have: - Medal count - Rough schedules for all events Hopefully medalists too, but won't be sure what data is available until it starts.

In one month: the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo

@steveruizok Yes, I am here: plaintextsports.com (Although it is optimized for mobile and the width is fixed at 45 characters.)

Dense. Give me the information. Dial down your whitespace. Dial up your contrast. Allow text to span more than 56 characters, allow spacing below 1.7, allow black borders between columns, scroll bars, tables with alternating background tints. Fast. Local-first or optimistic writes on the client. Few if any animations. Smart use of fonts, images, and assets to prioritize quick loads and transitions. Present. Do not navigate me if I don’t need to be navigated, but orient your design from the start for multiple views. Allow multiple panes. Look at high-pressure applications (trading, IDEs, medical, emergency, military) and take inspiration. Don’t take me away from my task. File over app. Open file format that many apps can view. Skip the spec until things harden, but keep it open anyway. Let my bots read it. Moldable. Decompose your app into lower primitives that can be loosely recomposed by the user to form many types of documents, dashboards, reports, etc. Start me at a good set of constructions. I’ll make the software into what I need it to be whether you like it or not, so make it easy for me and my bots. BYOAI. Let me bring my own services and information, either because the application is open enough for the bots to interact with directly (see File over app) or via an exposed host / tunnel or some other dangerous route. Above all remember that making software is getting easier so businesses will be making software on top of your software. Design for this!

You can find the new aesthetics at @usgraphics