🚀 [Feature] "Holiday mode" (load-no-images setting)

[alina-beck]

🚀 Feature

Users should be able to temporarily disable the loading of images for the whole network on their profile.

User Problem

Users on slow connections or who want to save data traffic (e.g. when they're on holiday) currently have to load all images on the network. Data volume will be improved with the responsive images feature (#2255) but turning images off completely – at least temporarily – could still be desirable.

Open questions

• Do we want to save this setting per user or per session?

Implementation

• Add this to the user settings (depending on the answer to the above question)
• Add placeholders (simple svg graphics) for each type of picture (post + avatar + embed?)
• Toggle between images and placeholders depending on the setting
• Make sure no images are loaded when the setting is active

Design & Layout

• settings page as usual
• placeholders need to be designed, svgs created

Validation

Compare the loading time / data volume with the setting active and inactive

Additional context

This idea came up when discussing if the list view should contain thumbnail images or not #2968

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