# commenting for members only and spinning wheel **URL:** \ **Category:** Using Ghost\ **Created:** [September 15, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/commenting-for-members-only-and-spinning-wheel/63775 "2026-09-15T23:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ray1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@Ray1](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Ray1)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 11:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/commenting-for-members-only-and-spinning-wheel/63775/1 "2026-09-15T23:34:00Z")
I have our site set up to only allow logged in users to post comments. All of our older posts show a block prompting for a logged out user to log in to comment but our recent posts just show a spinning wheel instead of that prompt. I’m just checking to see if anyone else sees that before I start digging into our theme. ---
**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/commenting-for-members-only-and-spinning-wheel/63775/2 "2026-09-16T01:40:35Z")
I’m also seeing the spinning behavior today. Haven’t had a chance to look into it, but I wonder if there’s a bug in there somewhere?? ---
**Author:** ![Adrian\_Papasergio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/adrian_papasergio/32/41686_2.png) [@Adrian\_Papasergio](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Adrian_Papasergio)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/commenting-for-members-only-and-spinning-wheel/63775/3 "2026-10-02T16:40:38Z")
HI @Cathy_Sarisky and @Ray1 I dug into this on a test site (Ghost 6.59, comments-ui ~1.6, comments set to members only) and found something that may explain it: **the comments app lazy-loads.** It doesn’t request anything from the server until the comments section scrolls into view, and until then it shows the spinner. On my site, a logged-out visitor sees the spinner indefinitely if they stay at the top of a long post (zero comment requests in the Network tab). As soon as you scroll down to the comments, it loads the “sign up / sign in” prompt within a second or two. Short posts look fine because the comments are already on screen when the page loads, which could be why your older posts behave differently. So a quick test: open an affected post logged out, scroll all the way to the comments and wait a couple of seconds. - **If the prompt appears** , it’s just lazy loading — nothing to fix. - **If it keeps spinning while it’s on screen** , that’s a real problem. Check the browser console (F12) for errors, and check whether your theme puts the `{{comments}}` block inside a hidden or collapsed container. The app only starts when it’s actually visible, so a hidden container will keep it spinning forever. Give it a try and let me know what you see, if it still spins with the comments on screen, share the console output and we’ll dig further. Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Ray1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/94ad74/32.png) [@Ray1](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Ray1)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/commenting-for-members-only-and-spinning-wheel/63775/4 "2026-10-04T21:30:46Z")
It seems like it might only happen if there are no comments in the post. A second (unrelay) issue we’re seeing is that analytics seem to have stopped working. ---
**Author:** ![Adrian\_Papasergio](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/adrian_papasergio/32/41686_2.png) [@Adrian\_Papasergio](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Adrian_Papasergio)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/commenting-for-members-only-and-spinning-wheel/63775/5 "2026-10-05T15:05:33Z")
Thanks Ray. I tried that on my test site (Ghost 6.59, comments for all members, a post with zero comments, logged out): after scrolling down, the sign-up prompt shows normally, so I can’t reproduce it here. Which Ghost version are you on, and are you on Ghost(Pro) or self-hosted? If it still spins with the comment section on screen, the browser console (F12) should show the error. On analytics: if you’re self-hosted, Ghost 6 web analytics needs Tinybird configured, so I’d check that first. Might be worth its own thread. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelThompson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@MichaelThompson](https://forum.ghost.org/u/MichaelThompson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/commenting-for-members-only-and-spinning-wheel/63775/6 "2026-10-05T15:23:04Z")
I’ve seen similar behavior with comment forms where the login prompt works on older posts but the newer ones get stuck loading. I’d check the browser console for a JavaScript error first, then test with plugins disabled or a default theme. That should help show whether it’s the theme or something added recently.