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summary: API for changing displayname in a specific room
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created: 2015-09-19 23:21:50.0
creator: neb
description: |-
  Submitted by @matthew:matrix.org
  Not high priority, but we theoretically support per-room display names and profile data - could be useful for manual disambiguating and other fun. Alien and others occasionally ask for it
id: '11898'
key: SPEC-230
number: '230'
priority: '4'
project: '10001'
reporter: neb
status: '1'
type: '2'
updated: 2016-10-28 16:27:39.0
votes: '0'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '12001'
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actions:
- author: richvdh
  body: 'Migrated to github: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/545'
  created: 2016-10-28 16:27:39.0
  id: '13353'
  issue: '11898'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-10-28 16:27:39.0