From 0b88d85375f277e500f5910ad40ed3f7ff6a5501 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Foster Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2024 16:55:33 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Document lack of update notifications --- proposals/4133-extended-profiles.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/proposals/4133-extended-profiles.md b/proposals/4133-extended-profiles.md index 530ca566941..a00dfb5b637 100644 --- a/proposals/4133-extended-profiles.md +++ b/proposals/4133-extended-profiles.md @@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ reasons, as many users will struggle to maintain many fields of personal data be rooms, and publishing state events for every field change could become an additional burden on servers and moderators. +In a similar vein, this proposal offers no method to "broadcast" to other users or homeservers that +changes have occurred. This is intentional to keep the scope of this change narrow and maximise +compatibility with existing servers. A future proposal may wish to use an EDU (such as Presence) to +notify users and homeservers that these custom fields have been updated. + ## Alternatives An alternative could be to allow for more specific endpoint modifications or to introduce a