Pin an individual comment from an issue

[hwittenborn]

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Currently you can pin GitHub issues, but not individual comments within those issues. It'd be helpful if I could pin an individual comment so that a helpful comment, such as a fix to an issue that's still being fixed, can be easily found within a comment.

I'm thinking the pinned comment can just be seen when viewing the issue directly - pinned issues can function as they currently do, and then the pinned comment can just be seen once the issue is clicked.

[cwway]

Chiming in on this - when using issues over time like a product dev/feature request catalogue, comments are added and stack up significantly.

The ability to PIN a particular comment, or perhaps overwrite ordering by assigning 1-2-3 priority, would be fantastic to bring at least one over-arching or conclusive comment to the top

[zadjii-msft]

Just to x-ref:

• Pin an individual comment from an issue #47912
• Add ability to pin comments in really long issue threads #27522
• Pin top / relevant comments #18523

all seem like they're the same request.

[Marcono1234]

And also from the now archived isaacs/github repository: isaacs/github#1008
Which contains some examples and references to related feature requests.

[gnowland]

And isaacs/github#1555 from the now archived isaacs/github repository.

[Marcono1234]

That issue from the isaacs/github repository seems to be about comments on PRs. For that there are other also other related suggestions here:

• Open commit suggestions are put into "hidden conversations" while resolved are presented #11842
• No way to easily view all unresolved conversations #7638

Though maybe having the option to pin comments on PRs could be useful nonetheless, but I am not sure if it would solve the issues mentioned in those discussions.

[gnowland]

The biggest issue here is when an important "current progress/blockers" comment gets hidden under "Load more..." leading to people constantly asking the current state. Pinning a comment should highlight it in some way as well as prevent it from being collapsed.

Heck, it might even make sense to collapse everything *up to* the pinned comment, since that comment is often the new jumping off point for further discussion on long-open issues.

[oleg-rswll]

This would be a really useful feature to have. Is there any status on when it may be available?

[Joao-Pedro-P-Holanda]

This feature of pinning comments can also be useful inside discussions, that naturally have more interactions than most issues. In a long term discussion (e.g. a discussion to keep track of the translation of a project's documentation) is important to have a way to keep the most relevant decisions or guidelines at the top.