diff --git a/DIFFERENCES.md b/DIFFERENCES.md
index fd9873635..fb36a07ee 100644
--- a/DIFFERENCES.md
+++ b/DIFFERENCES.md
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ ### list of features, bug fixes, etc that conduwuit does that upstream does not:
 - Send a User-Agent on all of our requests (`conduwuit/0.7.0-alpha+conduwuit-0.1.1`) which strangely was not done upstream since forever. Some providers consider no User-Agent suspicious and block said requests.
 - Safer and cleaner shutdowns on both database side as we run cleanup on shutdown and exits database loop better (no potential hanging issues in database loop), overall cleaner shutdown logic
 - Basic binary commands like `conduwuit --version` work (interested in expanding it more)
-- Keep track of remote user profiles for profile directory (user profile searching) and local requests for remote profiles (via upstream MR with changes)
 - Allow HEAD HTTP requests in CORS for clients (despite not being explicity mentioned in Matrix spec, HTTP spec says all HEAD requests need to behave the same as GET requests, Synapse supports HEAD requests)
 - Bump MSRV to 1.74.1
 - Purge unmaintained/irrelevant/broken database backends (heed, sled, persy)
@@ -50,4 +49,4 @@ ### list of features, bug fixes, etc that conduwuit does that upstream does not:
 - Prevent admin credential commands like reset password and deactivate user from modifying non-local users (https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/issues/377)
 - Fixed spec compliance issue with room version 8 - 11 joins (https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/16717 / https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/1708)
 - Add basic cache eviction for true destinations when requests fail if we use a cached destination (e.g. a server has modified their well-known and we're still connecting to the old destination)
-- Only follow 6 redirects total in our default reqwest ClientBuilder
\ No newline at end of file
+- Only follow 6 redirects total in our default reqwest ClientBuilder
diff --git a/src/api/client_server/profile.rs b/src/api/client_server/profile.rs
index 019177f56..e80459f1c 100644
--- a/src/api/client_server/profile.rs
+++ b/src/api/client_server/profile.rs
@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ pub async fn get_displayname_route(
             )
             .await?;
 
+        /*
+            TODO: ignore errors properly?
         // Create and update our local copy of the user
         // these are `let _` because it's fine if we can't find these for the user.
         // also these requests are sent on room join so dead servers will make room joins annoying again
@@ -143,6 +145,7 @@ pub async fn get_displayname_route(
             .users
             .set_blurhash(&body.user_id, response.blurhash)
             .await;
+        */
 
         return Ok(get_display_name::v3::Response {
             displayname: response.displayname,
@@ -271,6 +274,8 @@ pub async fn get_avatar_url_route(
             )
             .await?;
 
+        /*
+            TODO: ignore errors properly?
         // Create and update our local copy of the user
         // these are `let _` because it's fine if we can't find these for the user.
         // also these requests are sent on room join so dead servers will make room joins annoying again
@@ -287,6 +292,7 @@ pub async fn get_avatar_url_route(
             .users
             .set_blurhash(&body.user_id, response.blurhash.clone())
             .await;
+        */
 
         return Ok(get_avatar_url::v3::Response {
             avatar_url: response.avatar_url,
@@ -323,6 +329,8 @@ pub async fn get_profile_route(
             )
             .await?;
 
+        /*
+            TODO: ignore errors properly?
         // Create and update our local copy of the user
         // these are `let _` because it's fine if we can't find these for the user.
         // also these requests are sent on room join so dead servers will make room joins annoying again
@@ -339,6 +347,7 @@ pub async fn get_profile_route(
             .users
             .set_blurhash(&body.user_id, response.blurhash.clone())
             .await;
+        */
 
         return Ok(get_profile::v3::Response {
             displayname: response.displayname,
diff --git a/src/service/rooms/state_cache/mod.rs b/src/service/rooms/state_cache/mod.rs
index b7cd04a6c..546767a94 100644
--- a/src/service/rooms/state_cache/mod.rs
+++ b/src/service/rooms/state_cache/mod.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 pub use data::Data;
 
 use ruma::{
-    api::federation::{self, query::get_profile_information::v1::ProfileField},
     events::{
         direct::DirectEvent,
         ignored_user_list::IgnoredUserListEvent,
@@ -42,7 +41,9 @@ pub async fn update_membership(
         // Keep track what remote users exist by adding them as "deactivated" users
         if user_id.server_name() != services().globals.server_name() {
             services().users.create(user_id, None)?;
+            /*
             // Try to update our local copy of the user if ours does not match
+            // TODO: ignore errors properly?
             if ((services().users.displayname(user_id)? != membership_event.displayname)
                 || (services().users.avatar_url(user_id)? != membership_event.avatar_url)
                 || (services().users.blurhash(user_id)? != membership_event.blurhash))
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ pub async fn update_membership(
                     .set_blurhash(user_id, response.blurhash)
                     .await;
             };
+            */
         }
 
         match &membership {