Improve performance of user profiles, finding groups, and finding projects

This MR improves the following:

* Rendering of profile pages and Atom feeds
* Finding groups (using GroupsFinder & friends)
* Finding projects (using ProjectsFinder & friends)

Initially this MR was intended to only improve rendering of Atom feeds, but over time other fixes were introduced as well as the same code was the cause of all these problems.

See merge request !1790