Biography / Pronouns support

[regalialong]

This might be too much to ask but Discord User profiles have a biography and pronouns under user_profile, just two strings, I would like to have those two exposed as direct message topic (since Matrix doesn't have extensible profiles), similar to channels.

I looked into implementing it myself and I don't think discordgo's User exposes this, which means it would require a patch. The handwritten SQL makes it a little difficult for me to jump into the codebase and do it myself.

I can understand if this gets rejected because of the patch required or out of correctness.

Thanks!

[avdb13]

As far as I know this isn't really possible in Matrix, there has been an MSC about it but the answer ended up suggesting you just change your display name.

[regalialong]

This will come off as naive but I can create a room, give it a topic and then convert it to a DM. Why wouldn't it be possible to do something like that programmatically over the bridge? What would be the difference between the bridge-managed DM rooms and the manually created rooms that'd not make it feasible?

[Kladki]

This just sounds cursed. I think it may make more sense to have this available as a variable in displayname_template.

[regalialong]

That'd be a solution for pronouns but not for the profile biography.

[avdb13]

That'd be a solution for pronouns but not for the profile biography.

You are asking for the addition of a new Matrix event. This is a bridge, why do you expect it to take care of that? Theres a repository for spec change proposals.
As a matter of fact, "pronouns" and "biography" are a use of the feature, what you're referring to is extended user profile information.
See matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#3795.

[regalialong]

I'm aware of the extensible profiles proposals, but reading the activity of it (and its sister proposal matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals#1769), it seems to me this will not happen very soon.

That's why I want the biography (and/or pronouns) attached to the direct message rooms that the bridge already manages (similarly how it sets username and avatar), as a topic.

That's not a "correct" solution but a workaround until extensible profiles are actually implemented. As far as I know, that shouldn't require another event.

Topic is already set for bridged guild channels, can direct message rooms not contain topics, is that my misunderstanding?

[RoootTheFox]

MSC4133 (Extending User Profile API with Key:Value Pairs) got merged recently and might be worth looking into