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rooms, and publishing state events for every field change could become an additional burden on
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servers and moderators.
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In a similar vein, this proposal offers no method to "broadcast" to other users or homeservers that
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changes have occurred. This is intentional to keep the scope of this change narrow and maximise
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compatibility with existing servers. A future proposal may wish to use an EDU (such as Presence) to
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notify users and homeservers that these custom fields have been updated.
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## Alternatives
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An alternative could be to allow for more specific endpoint modifications or to introduce a

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