Over the years as "plain HTML"[1] websites in the mainstream have moved aside for JS-rich "Web Apps" I've started to appreciate the few sites that still exist as primarily HTML and CSS.<p>They load fast, respond instantly, and don't overwhelm you with newsletters, cookies, privacy or other pop-ups; but most importantly they are reliable and for whatever reason -- perhaps the Boring™ hosting over popular cloud hosting providers -- they are always up.<p>Anyway, some of mine are listed below but I'd love to see if the HN community has some treasured sites they still love and use regularly (other than HN of course).<p>- EpGuides[2] - plain-text list of episodes for TV shows including original air date and links to episodes as CSV, Wikipedia, IMDB, etc.<p>- Snooker.org[3] - Lite snooker live scores, TV schedule, tournament brackets + API access<p>- Live Football on TV[4] - Tabular list of football (soccer) fixtures and which TV network is showing them (UK only)<p>--<p>[1] I'm aware that not all of them are plain HTML, they are likely rendered from various server-side backends and some even have ads but I'm using that term to mean essentially once it renders, it's static and has minimal if any client-side interaction<p>[2] e.g. https://epguides.com/Lost/<p>[3] https://www.snooker.org/<p>[4] https://www.live-footballontv.com/
<a href="https://text.npr.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://text.npr.org</a> is pretty good for news.<p>I made <a href="https://blogs.hn" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blogs.hn</a> to help people find small tech blogs :)
Off the top of my head:<p><a href="https://brutalist.report/topic/news" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://brutalist.report/topic/news</a>?<p><a href="https://urbancommuter.net" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://urbancommuter.net</a><p><a href="https://47nil.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://47nil.com</a><p><a href="https://chuck.is" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://chuck.is</a><p><a href="https://wttr.in/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wttr.in/</a><p><a href="https://cheapskatesguide.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cheapskatesguide.org/</a>