Comments stick to object instead of position on layout

Thanks for sharing this idea @fred_k. I agree that being able to pin comments to any object/layer would be helpful!

Thank you Josh! How is your process working. I am curious to know what are the feature requests that are making the cut. Is it a matter of voting?

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Thank you!

Came here with this idea too. Would be very useful as designs constantly change. things move around and discussions often revolve around a specific element, section, etc. If I delete an element with a comment attached to it I think it would make sense to just have the comment unpinned.

Curious! Has any changes been made to this yet? Great feedback btw, same thought with you on this! 😊

Yes this would be very helpful. Three thumbs up!

I think the use cases vary. I would actually appreciate being able to pick between pinning a comment to an item vs adding a general comment vs a comment placed at a certain position in the frame.

Hello! Is it possible to add this feature? I suppose it worked in the past, but now it’s not possible and a bit annoying.

Any updates? Can’t believe this feature is missing from a newbie-as-I-do standpoint…

Really do need this. And it’s strange because if an object is NOT in a frame, the comment will stick to it, but you can’t pin comments to objects in frames. But I can see an issues like a comment being pinned to a group and then the group being ungrouped later, so I realize this is a hard problem overall. Hope this can be figured out!

On a second level, have comment categories with view/ hide option.
For example,

1. I can create a wireframe design and me, or a collaborator, move it/ copy-paste it anywhere and comments stick with it.
2. Moreover, I want to create and distinct comments for the development team, separated from the comment to the CX team, other comments for the UX Writing and copies team, and instruction for UI team, so every team may be able to hide unnecessary comments and instructions/ help the async. communication between teams.

Still need this!

Please make this feature @Figma_Support

@Figma_Support agreed, that feature would be really helpful!

I have to move my comments around with the design a lot. Very annoying!

Sticky comments - next little big update PLEASE! 🙏

It’s extremely frustrating that comments do not follow elements on the stage. If the UI/UX of a mockup is rearranged it gets very confusing to follow the comment threads for further updates as comments are fixed elements.

• Comments should be fixed relative to elements on your layers and not absolutely positioned.
• If a layer with comments gets deleting it should prompt a dialog window to delete (or fix the position) the comments with the layer.

Extremely required feature. Really.

Tips:

• Why not position comments same way as any other layers on canva?
• It is also good idea to have it on the objects (layers) list on the right, so we can see on which object it is positioned
• it should always have set flag “stack-positioning-toggle”, this way it never will affect to other objects positions.

Let me tell you right now, I’m doing the wireframes and copywriting for a fairly technical website (civil engineering stuff) and my client is very ardent in his feedback. In the sense that he’s kind of writing everything himself at this point. For the record, he’s trying to be helpful, not being a dick. He’s an engineer so go figure.

Anyway, the problem is that, in Figma, I currently have 193 comments scattered around four wireframes. You can imagine as soon as I move stuff around, a puzzle unfolds where I have to figure out which comment related to what piece of text, title, graphic,… Why can’t comments stick to the pixel of the layer they were pasted on instead of just straight canvas coordinates? How would that ever be useful anyway?

This sucks so bad it’s honestly mind-boggling.

Is this yet another QOL improvement destined to gather dust for years? It’s a little shocking that no one saw the issue in NOT anchoring comments to objects/elements. I guess it would present a challenge if an object was deleted, but it seems way worse trying to navigate comments on a constantly evolving design.

UP
This needs to be improved ASAP

Let’s hope this pain point is part of Figma’s roadmap as we can clearly see the issue has been reported 4 years ago and is still relevant to this day.

This totally would have been done before the acquisition by Adobe. 

Sticky comments would have been way more helpful than the recent UI overhaul. 

Sticky comments please, please, please.