Keep Comments pinned to design elements (including nested)

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June 9, 2021
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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).

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carynleiwe

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Similar to this request here, @Figma_Support can we please look into having comments pinned to elements when comments are added from and shown on the Prototype (URL with figma.com/proto/), not just the File?

Krizz

It doesn’t work.

Krizz

When I move objects, the comments stay where they are. This doesn’t work as intended at all. This is a huge problem because working on very long pages with lots of comments is simply not feasible without losing the position of the comments.
I’ve attached a video that shows what I mean.

3edf292be281441b9ca6dec68c719ea6ca5bb56f.zip

Ben64

New Participant

Almost two years, please please please update the ability to pin a comment to any design element. Or like otherwise mentioned, start with a component or nested frame at the very least.

We all know how essential comms. are between teams.

Chris_Gatland

New Participant

I’m less bothered about pinning comments to frames, but surely when I click-drag to select a bunch of objects, the comments should be included in that selection so I can move everything together? Even this doesn’t work currently and comments have to be click-dragged individually after I’ve moved all the design elements they refer to.

Massive, massive pain in the arse.

hummh

New Participant

It would be great if comments in Figma could be pinned to frames so that the context of a comment does not get lost when content changes.
Currently, when you make changes that e.g. increase the height of your frames, the context of the comments gets completely lost.

pkp

Comments on components are not moving.

Andy_Kim

Comments are useless if they don’t stick to original elements it was pointing to. As I add stuff to update from the comments and page size increase, everything is out of place and it’s useless…this was brought up 2yrs back, and no update yet?