Long-standing Issues

Commenters highlight that a discussed problem or situation has persisted for years or decades without significant progress, often questioning why it's only now being addressed or if change is imminent.

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Activity Over Time

2007
2
2008
23
2009
27
2010
45
2011
75
2012
71
2013
103
2014
77
2015
91
2016
139
2017
168
2018
210
2019
197
2020
272
2021
333
2022
401
2023
414
2024
317
2025
383
2026
36

Keywords

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Sample Comments

coldtea Aug 31, 2018 View on HN

So? It's just 1 year and a half later. For all we know this is still going on (those things take time).

charcircuit Dec 12, 2023 View on HN

That was over 2 decades ago, they have had plenty of time to try and fix this.

balderdash May 18, 2023 View on HN

Yeah this has been going on for 20 years..makes me wonder, why now?

throwaway234101 Aug 11, 2020 View on HN

Is that still happening? It looks like it's been on the back burner for a few years now.

creshal Sep 23, 2021 View on HN

Hasn't it "been making progress" for the past 3 years or so?

xyst Feb 22, 2023 View on HN

Feels like people have been saying this for years yet nothing has materialized.

xela79 Jun 22, 2023 View on HN

this has been an ongoing issue more than 10 years, with no end in sight

KittiHawk Sep 26, 2017 View on HN

It doesn't sound like that's been nearly sufficient for quite some years now.

katbyte Jul 5, 2019 View on HN

Almost 5? years later and it’s not gotten much better from what I can see.

runn1ng Nov 16, 2019 View on HN

I am mostly surprised this is still ongoing... isn’t it going for around 10 years already?