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A way to distinguish guest or AS-ghost room members (SPEC-361)

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Description

It would be useful if a client can distinguish at a glance of the members list (i.e. the set of m.room.member) events which users are guests, which are ghosts of which ASes, etc...

One way that this could be done easily is by adding another profile-like field, to be supplied along with the displayname and avatar_url fields there.

(Imported from https://matrix.org/jira/browse/SPEC-361)

(Reported by @leonerd)

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the Matrix specification's handling of m.room.member events and the existing displayname and avatar_url fields. The issue proposes a new profile-like field for distinguishing guests and ghosts of application services; done would require a decided field definition and corresponding specification text.

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documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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