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When i move my design elements/frames/etc., I expect all the pinned comments to move with them – but they don’t. instead i’m left with a bunch of floating comments (that are not attached to anything), which requires me to manually re-read each comment and move it again to its correct place. this is frustrating and time consuming. but what’s worse is when another user forgets to move the comments after they move the design elements, so when i return to the Figma file it’s very difficult to decipher the floating comments because they are not pinned to anything so i have no idea what they’re referring to. please keep Comments pinned to design elements (so moving design elements automatically moves comments).

+1.


This can do so much for collaboration.


Same issue as everyone else. Dear Figma,… it’s been 3 years since this thread started. Can you prioritize this please?


same here. and to add another use case: i just wanted to move a huge discovery page to another file, since along the way it was clear that the asset would belong to a different product in our ecosystem of services. now i can either move AND loose all 40+ open comments or keep the page in the “wrong” file. frustrating. if only “move page to file” was possible. just like “move to page” is possible for layers.


+1 to bump and boost—Figma team, please prioritize this extremely frustrating basic UX issue over AI integrations.


I can’t believe this is still an issue! Comments should be pinned to elements, even if those elements are within a group/auto layout/etc. Now, if my client leaves a few comments on top of specific elements, then I add some text to an element at the top of the page that pushes the content down the whole page, all the comments below are no longer pointing to the correct elements because they didn’t flow with the content. So frustrating!


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.



It is pointless if we read a comment pointing on nowhere.


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.


Unfortunately, there is still no solution for what I believe should be a basic functionality of the software. Somehow, it seems possible in DEV mode with annotations. It would already be helpful if we could at least choose whether to pin a comment to an element. It’s fine if the old functionality remains (as that can also be beneficial at times).


Another point I would like to raise is the ability to place comments that are not visible to the client. Right now, we are forced to misuse annotations in DEV mode to enable internal communication. But simply being able to place the comment in DEV mode would be sufficient, as long as it is not visible in the regular mode.


upvoting please fix this comments still doesnt move with the top frame they stay pinned.


works fine on new frame but doesn’t work on older frames that i made few months back


Another upvote for this. This thread spans back YEARS and as a platform that sells itself on collaboration and teams, not being able to fix comments to specific elements and have them persist in the position they were placed is unacceptable. How many years worth of comments from struggling users is it going to take to get this sorted out? I’m so sick of having to go through files and read and then re-position hundreds of comments after making a change that I’m now actively looking for a way to remove Figma from my UI workflow altogether. Please, Figma, figure this out! It can’t be that hard to allow users to pin a comment to a specific component, frame or nested element that it’d take multiple years to figure it out. Even if I had to slow down my workflow and rename every little thing, I’d do it if meant comments would stick to them!


Holy horrible user experience batman. What is the point of making a collaborative software when that same collaborative software care very easily change appearance with me simply moving an item in an auto layout situation. Making other comments orphaned from their original point of focus.


The fact that this comment thread goes back years tells me that this isn’t a priority on any level. Figma doesn’t care on any level about this. They can say they are looking into it all they want but actions speak louder than words.


They could easily make a comment section in the right hand toolbar that is there when you select an element, problem solved then and then when you open the comments section on the right have them all there with the ability to sort and organize them.


I think I found a work around somehow.

Analysis & Issue:



  1. Comment can be sticky to a frame but only top level if nested elements are auto-layout.

  2. If there is a frame into a frame it does work ok, without missing the initial position.

    Fix:

    In a matter to keep the comment sticky (I assume if there is not too many as the fix is manual by hand and could be overwhelming for larger number of comments) all is needed to get the frame, section, element out of top level frame then stick the comment & then put it back.



[video link](https://app.weet.co/play/7fde08bb/create-video-tutorials-with-weet)

Now, we can’t move anything anymore on the screens, because we would break all the comments. Makes the whole comments thing a gamble to use.


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