I feel like the whole Matrix ecosystem started to stagnate.
Sadly, due to network effect, I am also present on Discord. And it seems to me that it has quite a few features that would be welcome in Matrix.
Things like multiple user tags / roles, bulk delete messages when banning a user, etc.
While I am happy that some of such missing features can be implemented with bots, doing stuff with bot commands is a workaround for what would be nice to have as part of the UI.
Again, question of ecosystem. Clients would have to be very modular for implementing various random out-of-spec features.
Thank you for reading my rant.
Redact-on-ban is an in-progress MSC (MSC4293). User tags are nice but I haven’t seen specs for it. They’ll probably just be there to annotate a user, and won’t be involved with the current power level system
Matrix Specification Proposals (more specifically the files in the
proposalsdirectory or the pull requests tab where discussions are held as well)