Pin the Community tab

Yeah, I noticed that too, and it's been pretty annoying. Having to reopen the community tab every time you view a file really breaks the flow. It felt smoother before. Hopefully, they bring back a better way to navigate without constantly resetting everything.

And for some reason community is hiden under dropdown > My community profile > Search
So 3 steps instead a link, really annoing. I loved pined community near the homescreen in tabs in previous version. It’s a small tab, so it’s wont take a lot of space from tabs. You can return small community tab, just an icon.

Hey All, thank you for your continued feedback! 

Is the most frustration from not being able to save your browse state with Templates and Tools?

The team would like to point out that you can keep Templates and Tools open in the file browser and open any new community files in a new tab. You should then be able to return to your home tab which should have retained your previous browse state. 

Hey ​@dvaliao  — just wanted to share a bit of feedback I’ve encountered while using the community tab.

So, when I click on my community profile, it redirects me to my profile as expected, which is great. But when I open a the tab where I am currently designing (since that’s how I usually work — switching between tabs), the community tab I just opened gets automatically removed without me closing it.

The tricky part is that unlike other tabs, I also can’t pin the community tab, which makes it a bit frustrating when juggling multiple resources.

There wasn’t this behavior before, so I’m wondering if there’s a way to bring back the option to pin the community tab or prevent it from auto-closing? Would be super helpful for productivity.

Appreciate you looking into this when you can.

Hey All, 

With the recent release of Templates and tools, the new entry point for the Community is now through Home > Templates and tools. You can also go directly to figma.com/community in the browser. 

We hear your frustration though. I’ve updated this topic into a feature request and passed this feedback onto the Community team for reconsideration. 

credit: dvaliao

​@shashik Thank you for the  update.

Just wondering though — is there still hope for the Community tab to be pinned back? I feel like it’s always good to give people multiple pathways to access the community. Can never go wrong with more options!

Thank you!

Hi ​@Ellaine_Gabotero, thanks for your feedback! 

I’ve passed this onto our Community team, who is reevaluating this recent change. While I can’t make any promises, they are definitely listening and considering how this change has impacted users. 

Department of Unnecessary Innovation at it again… Community is nearly unusable at this point because Figma keeps overengineering everything, making difficult to access and unusable. I wish they realized they can just leave things alone instead of flooding us with redesign fatigue on every feature.

I’m fine with getting to community a new way, however, whenever I open something from there it auto closes the tab and I have to go back through all those steps again. why can’t once it’s open it stay open?

Beyond frustrating