Support for per-room display names/avatars

[richvdh]

Client-side support for https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/545

[Vetgans]

I second this request for choosing a displayname per room.

In https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-230 it’s given ‘not high priority’. One of the key features of Matrix however is to bridge networks and combine things. Many people use different (nick)names and aliases on different networks, fora and so on. People often (obligatory) use surnames for work, but first names to communicate with family and friends.

So shouldn’t this request get a (much) higher priority?

[ara4n]

the priority here is basically "not high relative to stuff like e2e". it's prolly somewhere between p2 and p3; will put it as p2 for now.

[JasonLocklin]

Per-group nicks, rather than per-channel, would make more sense, when groups are done. It makes more sense in terms of UX -both for the user (i.e., keeping track of the fact that I use one display name for work, another for family, etc. is easy), and for the user's contact (Joe at work will always see my work display name, no accidentally using the wrong display name in one odd channel).
The UI for managing these multiple display names could easily be worked seamlessly into whatever UI is created for managing group subscriptions.

[uhoreg]

dup of matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#838

[heyakyra]

Would this give the illusion that the different nicks are separate? i.e. offer anonymity? If so may conflict with element-hq/element-web#5216

[t3chguy]

@thekyriarchy it's not intended for that whatsoever since the MXID will not change, just the display name will, so I presume more for differing preferred name/known as name in different groups/circles

[jooert]

If someone is interested in updating their displayname in certain rooms manually, I wrote a small Python script to do this.

[t3chguy]

If you're using riot Web it's possible to do roughly scripts. See https://vault.webdevguru.co.uk/Matrix/per-room-nickname/

[t3chguy]

If you're using riot Web it's possible to do roughly scripts. See https://vault.webdevguru.co.uk/Matrix/per-room-nickname/

[t3chguy]

If you're using riot Web it's possible to do roughly scripts. See https://vault.webdevguru.co.uk/Matrix/per-room-nickname/