Comments hidden by default (as it used to be)

• Latest comments update made comments visible in view mode
• These get in the way of viewing the design
• Please hide comments as they were before - until users actually click the comment icon to make them show up when needed

While I’m editing, I can see the comment bubbles floating around. That’s annoying when you’re trying to focus on editing. And god forbid if there is an icon getting covered b the comment bubble. It’s so disorienting to work with it.

You can press shift-C to hide them but I do agree that it’s annoying that they’re displayed each time you open a file. I then thought it might be useful so you’d know that there were comments, but then realized there could be a better method for that as an alert as opposed to always just showing all comments each time.

Thank you!

Can someone explain - I can’t actually see the comment bubbles unless I click on the menu item. I’m trying to make them visible to non-designers I’m linking the page to.

When I do shift-C, I see the toast saying comments are visible/hidden, but nothing else happens.

Edit:
Ah maybe I just don’t have this feature yet 😦 Just saw a tweet from the figma account saying they’re still rolling this out over the next few weeks, as of Nov 17

This is the same issue I’m having. I can only see comments when I click on the comment bubble in the top menu bar, and then as soon as I click away (to the pointer, for example), the comments disappear. I want them to remain visible. Shift + C does nothing except tell me comments are hidden or visible, but nothing really happens. Have you found a fix?

1. Describe the problem your experiencing and how your idea helps solve this

The new comments design is nice, but the comments are now always visible. The only way to turn them off is to go to comments mode, go to the comments setting in the comments panel, and set Hide Comments – unless you learn the obscure keyboard shortcut to hide them.

What makes this worse is this is not an application preference – it’s a file preference! I have to do this on every file?!

Please, I don’t want to look at comment bubbles while I’m drawing UI. It’s distracting.

2. Add as much context as possible (screenshots, Figma files, mockups, etc.)
   

3. Ask questions to bring the community into the conversation
   (e.g. Does anyone else experience this? Is anyone using a plugin or workaround to help solve this?, etc.

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Yep, this is annoying and feels like a bug. I can toggle comments on and off (shift+c or the View menu) but refresh the page and they’re right back there, front and center.

New comment redesign is great but it is so annoying seeing comments floating all over the places even tho we are not on the comment tab

Does anyone experience the same issue?

Does anyone else find that showing the comment bubbles by default annoying?
If yes, please upvote this post.

If Figma still wants to have this option, they could at least have setting allowing us to turn this feature on / off.