Pretty much as described. I had someone enquire about this because they had one account with their current on stream name and while looking to find their rebranded name they registered it on a their stream testing account.

Since both account are registered to the same email address it would be nice to "switch" the usernames when the rebrand goes live. As it stands now they are stuck waiting while the name goes back into the name pool and hoping the name is freed up for the "main" account.

(and no one takes it during this time...)

Rebranding can take time and it usually isnt something a broadcaster wants to do in pieces (known as new name on twitch, old name on social media platform x etc) being able to reserve or switch usernames in this manner will allow broadcasters to properly plan and release a rebranding.

Some people may have old accounts that they had forgotten about. In my case. I have one without the numbers at the end of the name. I recently was able to log into it and would like to have the ability to swap the name with my current account.

If someone can prove they own both of the accounts, it would be nice for some way to swap them. If I change the name of the account with no numbers, there's no guarantee I'll be able to be the one to snag it whenever it gets freed up and that could be 6+ months.

The suggestion: Add in the ability to swap names between accounts and could be some option on both ends to "approve" the swap before it goes through

Before suspending users with inappropriate names, could you instead give them a 5 day warning to change? The suspension without warning seems very unnecessary if a person has had it for the longest time and suddenly got suspended. I believe lots of people could stop clogging suspension appeals with this, especially those who aren't genuine trouble makers with their names and people deserve second chances! Especially with usernames, my friend got suspended and there was no clear heads up on their suspension. They were watching a stream and bop! Banned without warning and for having an average name that never harmed anybody and definitely made a bunch of people laugh and bring a smile to their face.

This also just sounds like I want my friend unsuspended, but I believe giving a person a 1-7 day warning to change their name will unclog lots of suspension appeals.

I'd like to comment on something that I think it would be nice to have when changing your username, and what happens is that when you change your name the count on the number of subs you have gifted is reset and it's split in two different usernames (your old one and the new one). And, for instance, in the board of leadership of stream elements which is shown in some channels doesn't appear the total of subs concerning your account, and it's split in two as I said before. So, I think you could do something about that because that concerns as well the emotes you receive when gifting subs and things like that.

I've been wanting to change my display name for a while, but every time I tried it gave me a not very specific error for it. Turns out, you can't have the same display name as other people. Why? This is counterproducent for those people who just set their given or family name as display names, so those who wish to put their name as "Tanaka" have to somehow change the spelling of their name to be allowed to have it? That doesn't make sense, the display name doesn't even overrid the normal username, so why do they both have to be unique?
Make it either one or the other, or just let display names be whatever.

This is hateful you are disrespecting us Affiliates, and Partners, we should get the rights since of sharing exclusive VODs (exclusivity rule) with Twitch, and are restricted for 24 hrs to reupload (reuploading someone who is going live often is really difficult), I mean you are already getting huge splits of revenue by us, then you disrespect even our names in cases if someone of us dies?
Recycle your customers which are non-affiliates, our usernames stay our usernames as so in Steam, and YouTube, just because some ducks disrespect us eagles it does not mean you need to listen to that democracy, instead, respect the moral of respecting the ones who gain you the money with their efforts.
Only recycle non-affiliates after the 1-year rule.
If you would respect us then you wouldn't never ever think about deleting affiliates who created since they trusted for their achievement hunting as affiliates that their collections are safe.
Why is YouTube even respecting even YouTube accounts with 0 followers, and 1 video which has even 0 views, and you disrespect us Affiliates, and the great Partners?
Change that, and it's cruel that good ideas get lost just because some more simple understandable "ideas" are saturated over-voted, it's like the categories, just because the crowd of ducks watches that category means not that the retro old-school stuff which is even challenging more is out-of-date, democracy does not always work.

Faithfully
Lahdo

It is kinda irritating when someone already has the user name you want to use and there is no way to facilitate asking or paying paying for a name trade. I am sure a lot of people that do not actually stream and only watch twitch would not mind too much to give up their name if someone asked for it and even fewer if they where compensated for it. Even those that do stream could probably even give up their name if someone payed enough for them, because names can be important for recognition and people are willing to pay for it. You could even have a "handling fee" for it in you want a incitement to spend time developing this system.