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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Natti

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Agreed, not sure why this hasn’t been addressed with so much traction on the issue for years, it’s obviously still a problem for us. The comment does indeed stick to the frame which is fine if you don’t move any of the components, which is not all that useful when iterating on a design and things are constantly changing/moving around.

We need the comment pinned to the element/instance/component it was originally tagged to. Pretty please 🥺

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Stacey_Cochrane

I’m new to Figma and one of the things I found instantly annoying was the inability to pin comments to an element or frame. So frustrating and time-consuming to have to update these. MIRO does it perfectly!!

Joe_Pendlebury2

Considering all the latest and remarkable improvements made to Auto Layout, it’s perplexing that the essential need to “pin” comments to elements within Auto Layout components and containers remains unaddressed. Similarly, when elements are being shown or hidden through the use of Boolean properties, I would expect the comments to follow suit and display or conceal accordingly.

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Jessica_Fuller

Please, I am begging you to add the feature where comments stay pinned to elements. I can’t believe it’s been 2 years of asking for this. Comments are basically useless without it.

Ayush_Sharma

So the user scenario is like… I have send my design to get reviewed by the client. He commented on the field where he want the changes.

I look up my Figma file & start working on it but the 😶‍🌫️ problem comes when I start removing the fields the comment is still below down there as I have created everything in auto layout, which caused the problem of remembering the comment where it is mentioned. If there is already any solution exist please let me know. 😀

Ayush Sharma.
@ayusharma_designs

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Alberto_Aguilera

Absolutely agree. Comments are basically worthless if they can’t be pinned to elements. This should be the #1 feature request in Figma’s backlog.

Marty_Merida

Upvoting this. I’d love to see the elements attached to be specific to the need. Such as a word in a paragraph could be selected then if you hit the commenting tool or the quick command keys it will attach itself to that object. If a frame, or an image, it should work the same whatever is selected is what the comment attaches to. There should be several ways to specifically attach comments so as adjustments get made the comments stay within their orientation within a given design