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Sort comments by date (of last post/reply in comment)

Regi
  • Regi
  • Active Member
  • 20 replies

Today it seems that a comment’s date/time does not update with the last reply date/time in the comment thread. This makes following comment threads kind of impossible or at least hard.

E.g. if I sort comments by date I see comments from 3 days ago on top even though there are comments that have a reply more recently than that.

Sorting comments by ‘unread’ is not a solution because I might click through them quickly and then they will move out of the top of the list to anywhere where they move (based on comment creation date I guess). 

What is the purpose of having comment threads if it’s only possible to sort them by creation date? Or am I missing something obvious?


Thanks. 

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    Damio
    • Damio
    • New Member
    • 1 reply
    • August 21, 2025

     I hate the  figma comments function, i feel like i just go around in circles and re-read comments i've already read... there doesn't seem to be a way to  know what comment you are on on the board and on the panel at the same time and it's not clear if it has been read or not. And there isn’t a way to see replies to threads at the top in the comments panel. 

    Richard Benson

    Seconding this… as a user, my expectation is that sorting by date isn’t the creation date of the original comment, but the latest posts in all of the threads. The current behavior is unintuitive and makes prioritization of comments/posts almost impossible.

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