Thanks for the tip! Wasn't sure where the DOM was lagging.
For your question, if you register an account, you can't post a recipe unless you upgrade to a premium account. I'm not expecting anyone to actually pay for this feature, I just put it up to prevent anyone from spamming images. Every user is able to comment on recipe pages though.
Quick question. What do you use Stripe for?
And if I may, I would move this stripe <script> tag to the bottom of <body>. Should speed up DOM loading: https://i.imgur.com/0X93EHy.png