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summary: Ability to override the displayname for users & rooms that get served to you
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created: 2016-07-14 18:43:39.0
creator: neb
description: |-
  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)
id: '12748'
key: SPEC-427
number: '427'
priority: '3'
project: '10001'
reporter: neb
status: '1'
type: '2'
updated: 2016-10-28 16:28:39.0
votes: '1'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '12848'
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actions:
- author: richvdh
  body: 'Migrated to github: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/690'
  created: 2016-10-28 16:28:39.0
  id: '13499'
  issue: '12748'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-10-28 16:28:39.0