Keep Comments pinned to design elements (including nested)

Hey All, so sorry for the continued trouble!

The team confirmed that the underlying issue is that Figma can only pin comments at a set of coordinates on a top-level frame, not any of the nested elements. This means that resizing the frame or rearranging the elements inside the frame can cause the pins to lose a clear reference to the nested layers that they were previously shown.

We’re trying to build a better function that allows comments to pin to nested elements, but until then, please keep this in mind when trying to move your designs with comments in the future!

I would like to have a feature to move comments between pages. As recently I moved some of my design to some other pages in the same file, the comments (there are mostly a hundred) were not moved along.

you should have your whole company drop everything else and work on this exclusively. The commenting feature is useless otherwise

Hey @David_Platt1,

I understand your frustration. While I wish I had that type of authority, the teams ultimately chose their priorities, so there’s no specific timeline to share on a fix.

To be transparent, the main issue the team is trying to prevent is when a user deletes a high top level node that contains lots of comments, the number of API requests fired all at once could be substantial, causing much bigger performance issues.

Rest-assured that our collaboration team wants to fix this and continues to revisit to try new approaches, but until we have an optimal approach with more safety guardrails for issuing lots of comment API updates all at once, it’s best to comment on your top level frames to ensure your comments stay pinned when moving your designs.

Comments are selectable items in the canvas. Therefore when they are part of a mixed selection set they should obey basic canvas inputs, like moving or deleting.

I hope this inconsistency gets resolved soon. It’s causing a lot of manual work when cleaning up a component file.

+1 to prioritize this. I might be using 5% of the whole set of Figma features, but this is a time-wasting activity.

Still really wishing for this feature. I put a lot of comments within my top-level Autolayout frames and every time something in my design changes place, I have to move the comments along with it. It’s soooo time-consuming and frustrating.

I’m continuously surprised that this hasn’t been fixed yet because Figma is normally so good at improving/updating the things that really matter!

Edit: and indeed also being able to cut/paste to other pages/files without losing comments… I often build stuff in a ‘sandbox’ type file and then have to re-add all my comments if I want to move it to a project file.

I could swear this was working at some point. I could click + drag and highlight a bunch of elements an components, and then move that selection around - and the comments would move with them. Definitely not working now.

Edit: When I attach a comment to something that is NOT inside a frame, the comment moves with that element. Here’s how to break it:

• Move it into a frame (with the comment still attached).
• Deselect that element by clicking off it
• Select it again by clicking on it
• Drag it around in that frame
• Comment STILL moves with it
• Then while still working within that frame, drag the comment off that element
• Drag the comment back into that element
• Move that element around
• Now the comment pinning is broken, and it won’t move with that element

Another vote to look at this, unless I’m missing some feature.

Another frustrated comment mover 😕 Just got deep into a round of revisions before I discovered this; I need to rearrange my canvas and trying to move these comments in a way that makes sense is going to take an hour. As a solo designer moving comments is the kind of busy work that drives me crazy.

One possible QOL improvement that wouldn’t mess with the core architecture: let me move comments as a group when I’m zoomed out and they’re grouped together. When I drop the group it would re-place the comments with the same relationship to the center of the group as they did before I moved it. If I can zoom out, grab the comment summary circle and move them all together I could at least move the comments somewhat close to where they’re supposed to be.