Getting Ghosted by Ghost's Comments

Where have all the comments gone?

I got an email telling me someone had left a comment on one of my posts. Cool! I rarely get comments on my blog these days, so any sort of awareness that someone actually reads what I write is always a nice little shot of dopamine.

Screenshot showing the email saying someone left a comment on my post with a link to view comments.

The email included a link to View Comments and when I clicked it, I could see the comment. Also cool!

Screenshot showing Jan's comment thanking me for the blog post.

But when I wanted to tap the heart or reply, I was prompted to sign up and become a member, or sign in to my blog.

Which seems a bit odd, since two tabs over I'm looking at my Ghost Dashboard, very clearly logged in.

So I click "Sign in", remember which email is my Ghost admin email, type that in, and get another email sent to me with a secure log in link, which when I click that logs me in to my blog so I can heart or reply.

A few extra steps it seems, but cool. Done.

What About the Ghost Dashboard?

That extra back and forth got me wondering—isn't there a way right inside the Ghost admin dashboard to see, reply, and moderate comments on my blog? WordPress has a fairly robust comment management system built into its dashboard, and I assumed Ghost would have something similar.

Nope.

Dashboard for Ghost showing Posts heading with nothing mentioning comments.

Dashboard for Ghost showing the left sidebar with nothing about comments or community.

Am I missing something obvious? I'm not posting this to shame the Ghost development team for not having comments, it just feels odd to not have it built into the dashboard to quickly reply or delete comments. The only way I can figure out how to know I have a comment is to get the email notification or go through my posts one by one.