Currently, comments and suggestions in a document are always displayed (with its full text content) to the right of the document. The only way to hide them is to permanently delete or resolve them. In scenarios where there are a few comments that are right next to each other (e.g. three phrases in one paragraph each with a separate comment) that all have long comments attached to it, the comments get visually stacked on top of each other, making it look like the third comment, to use the example, is no longer attached to the original paragraph it actually refers to.

This problem is compounded when there are many other comments underneath that. Sometimes, those stacked comments also force other comments after that to be lower than where they should be at, making comments look messy without individually clicking each comment to see where in the document they are attached to.

The previous version of the display system for comments and suggestions is my preferred solution to this issue where instead of comments/suggestions being fully displayed constantly in a separate section that takes up a whole column to the right of the document, each comment and suggestion is instead displayed as a single small button that takes up less visual space off in the margins of the document and clicking those buttons each individually display the comment/suggestion in its full text (and any replies attached to it) as a sort of floating window (like when using absolute positioning in CSS).

Additionally, if anyone prefers the current way that comments and suggestions are visually set up, Proton can instead implement a setting in the document that toggles between different ways of displaying comments: the current way, the older previous way, and a total hide setting (to keep a document visually clean). This third setting that I am suggesting can help writers that are affected by visual clutter to maintain focus when writing. That's actually what I initially loved about Proton Docs is how clean everything looks and the lack of visual clutter compared to other similar web apps—it helps me write—but the way comments are displayed now really affects me when writing cause every little opinion and side note is just exploding in my face with how it's currently set up. It's a little too distracting when writing.

[ALSO, ON A MORE AESTHETIC, LESS IMPORTANT NOTE]: When using an internet browser whose window size is not fully maximized, this feature of comments being permanently displayed in a separate section to the right of the document makes the whole document not centered along the horizontal axis. Not really super important as this part of the issue is a purely aesthetic and not functional one.