Ability to override the displayname for users & rooms that get served to you (SPEC-427)

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Submitted by @​matthew:matrix.org
This could be done by account_data, both per-room (for overriding m.room.name and membership names within rooms) and globally (for overriding user displaynames globally)

(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-427)

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Edit (richvdh 2020/08/11): I think this feature is asking for the ability to set local displaynames for rooms and other users, that are not shared with other users. For example, I might want to set a displayname of "Mum" for my mum, while her public displayname remains unchanged.

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is duplicated by SPEC-456

[realitygaps]

Is this still planned? would be useful feature imo.

[ara4n]

You could patch this up clientside, but for a good implementation you'd need proper mention support at last, so i can say <a rel="@realitygaps:matrix.org">Mr Flibble</a> hi! and have the rest of the room have a hope in hell of understanding what i meant

[madduck]

/me is really longing for this…

[Ekleog]

I guess upping a a-few-months-old thread is not a big issue, so... longing for this too :)

likewise. this would be really helpful. hopefully someone will bump the priority.

What about this? 2 years since request and still nothing happened in this matter, IMHO it's probably one of most needed features.