Show the name (and possibly avatar) of people in email notifications from forum / activities / private message threads

[nekohayo]

The email notification we currently receive when someone replies to a forum/group thread contains only the title of the thread and the contents of the newly posted message... but we have no idea who said what.

The email should include something like:

[avatar] $name ($username) replied to the thread $hyperlinked_thread_title :

$message

                                                                                    ["Reply" button]

In fact, the username is mentioned in the "sender" field of the email, but not inside the email's contents itself. The problem is that I typically don't look at the sender field, and did not even notice this until now, because it gets truncated by my email client as the sender column is pretty short, so it mostly just shows "BeWelcome - Blah..." as the sender.

Putting all this inside the email body itself would improve the usability & UX of those notification emails tenfold!

[thisismeonmounteverest]

Revisit when forum and group code is rewritten.