Lazy loading images naturally causes a slight delay, because the browser
only starts to load them after laying out the DOM and checking whether
they're in the viewport. Plus, in Safari, re-rendering the DOM of a
lazy-loaded image always causes a brief flicker, even if the image is
already cached in the browser.
Lazy-loading is most beneficial on large one-off images which are often
rendered outside the viewport. That's frequently the case for images
which users share in topics. Avatars, on the other hand, are very small
images, they're very often above-the-fold, and the same avatar often
occurs many times on the same page.
Therefore, this commit removes `loading="lazy"` from avatars, which
should improve avatar load times in all browsers, and stop the flicker
in Safari.
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Tapping logo to reload topic-list in Safari. Before: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/242299f8-aa13-4991-b321-2f143603ed26
After: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5e5bfd28-3a78-40fd-af21-3d92e7b3ba8a
This change adds support retroactively updating display names in the new quote format when the user's name is changed. It happens through a background job that is triggered by a callback when a user is saved with a new name.
