Feature: Option to view profile pictures in comments

[0xCmdrKeen]

Adds a new option "Show avatars in comments" (default: OFF).

When enabled, user names in the comments will have their profile picture shown next to their names.

This fixes #567.

[entropicdrifter]

This is exactly what I'd envisioned when I wrote my feature request! Thank you @0xCmdrKeen!

[aeharding]

Please confirm this issue is ok to work on in the issue before opening a pr (contributing.md). Thank you.

[0xCmdrKeen]

@aeharding it wasn't assigned so I thought it was okay to work on.

[sharunkumar]

Branch needs a rebase. Other than that, are there any plans to take this, @aeharding ?

[jaqueen14]

I see you've raised some concerns as to why this hasn't been merged yet

As for why it isn’t merged in yet, is because it is a PR for a user submitted issue that hasn’t been fully triaged yet. For example, should avatars also be added to profile, autocomplete, post details, account selector etc, should avatars be animated, or frozen etc

While i understand the desire to have a fully fleshed out solution would it be possible to incrementally implement it by starting with having this in comments and then I'm sure others would raise PRs if they want it working on profiles, making animated pfps work etc?

Otherwise I can try working on that if it would make it more likely to get merged?

[0xCmdrKeen]

@zara2x feel free to take this over if @aeharding is okay with that. I probably won't be continuing to work on this, and given the age of the PR, I assume it might take quite a bit of work to make it functional again.