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Warwick Ward's avatar
Warwick Ward
Bronze Contributor
Jul 18, 2017

No option to turn off comments on modern pages in Team Sites

Looks like this had only come about post last weekends updates... just me or is anyone else seeing this?   Futher investigation, it seems this only occurs when the page is set as the Home Page, a n...
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Alyssa Danesh's avatar
Alyssa Danesh
Former Employee
Aug 03, 2017

Warwick Ward Tomáš Petržilka

 

Thanks for letting us know! Getting on this now. You should be able to turn comments off on a page that is set as the home page. Working on this!

  • Michael Wells's avatar
    Michael Wells
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 07, 2017

    Hi Alyssa,

     

    Has this yet been resolved. I am still not able to turn comments off my home page.

     

    To achieve this, I have to:

    1. Ensure page is not set to Homepage,
    2. Edit page and turn off comments,
    3. Publish page, and
    4. Set page as homepage.

    I also lose 'Site Settings', etc. in the Settings Cog when on a modern page. This is also frustrating!

     

    Thanks,

    Michael.

    • Damian Jauregui's avatar
      Damian Jauregui
      Copper Contributor
      Nov 27, 2017

      Hi Michael,

       

      Site Settings is still there, but now you need to select "Site Information" under the cog, and then the pop out properties panel, which shows you the title and description of the site, has a link to "View all site settings" which takes you to the traditional site settings page.

       

      Damian.

      • Michael Wells's avatar
        Michael Wells
        Copper Contributor
        Dec 11, 2017

        G'day Damian,

         

        Thanks for the response - annoying that it's now another click away, but appreciate you pointing out it's new home. :)

         

        Cheers,
        Michael.

  • Kuran Mann's avatar
    Kuran Mann
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 17, 2017

    This is still a bug on our homepage. When will this issue be resolved?

    • Alyssa Danesh's avatar
      Alyssa Danesh
      Former Employee
      Nov 06, 2017

      Hi all - upon further inspection that is by design. The thinking being that home pages typically do not have comments. Comments are not lost, if that page is not longer set to the home page the comments will reappear. For now, there will never be comments on the home page.

       

      Would love your feedback here! What is your desired behavior? Is there a desire for comments on the home page of a site?

      • Fred Y's avatar
        Fred Y
        Iron Contributor
        Apr 17, 2018

        Hi, Alyssa Danesh.

        Is it possible to disable Comments on Site Pages for a specific site collection with Modern Pages? 

         

        I've ran into an issue that having this available adds another authentication prompt for guest users when Comments are enabled at the tenant level settings. 

         

        Fred Y 

         

  • Charlie Gonzales's avatar
    Charlie Gonzales
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 08, 2017

    I have a page that's set as the homepage and it doesn't give me the option to turn off comments?

    • Warwick Ward's avatar
      Warwick Ward
      Bronze Contributor
      Aug 08, 2017
      Yes works fine until you set the page as the home page, then you loose ability to turn off comments, even if you had already turned it off already
      • Aleš Šavli's avatar
        Aleš Šavli
        Brass Contributor
        Sep 26, 2017
        I just noticed that if a page is set as "Home page" comments section is not displayed at all. Is this by design? I don't understand why would MS remove this option for home page.

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