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Document lack of update notifications
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tcpipuk committed Jun 7, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -178,6 +178,11 @@ reasons, as many users will struggle to maintain many fields of personal data be
rooms, and publishing state events for every field change could become an additional burden on
servers and moderators.

In a similar vein, this proposal offers no method to "broadcast" to other users or homeservers that
changes have occurred. This is intentional to keep the scope of this change narrow and maximise
compatibility with existing servers. A future proposal may wish to use an EDU (such as Presence) to
notify users and homeservers that these custom fields have been updated.

## Alternatives

An alternative could be to allow for more specific endpoint modifications or to introduce a
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