if all comments are hidden, no comments (not even hidden ones) are visible

[cathysarisky]

Issue Summary

If all comments have been hidden by a site admin, the hidden comments do not appear. Making a new visible comment restores access to the hidden comments.

Steps to Reproduce

Make some comments
As a site admin, hide all the comments on a post.
Reload. Observe that the hidden comments are not displayed to the admin user.

Ghost Version

5.110.2

Node.js Version

20

How did you install Ghost?

local dev

Database type

SQLite3

Browser & OS version

windows 11, chrome

Relevant log / error output

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[cathysarisky]

Ahha. We have here a chicken and egg problem. The auth frame doesn't load if there are no comments, which means we never check to see if there are admin comments, because we never realize we have an admin. But we can't check for hidden comments without having the auth frame loaded, so... my best thinking today is that the auth frame should just always try to load. Otherwise, hiding the last comment on a post makes it impossible to revert the hiding, unless you make a visible comment first...