Twitch's "recycle" policy is misleading and they're not true to their words.

I've been waiting 6 years to claim my old account's usenrame. According to the recycle policy, it says it'll take 6 months to 1 year before inactive usernames can be reclaimed by somebody else.

I can't be the only one who's been waiting to reclaiming usernames??????????

I'm still waiting for my username for over 6 months

Please change this policy or make it easier to reclaim names that are locked up.

Been waiting almost 2 years for the username I want to free up. And for an entire year it has displayed the "Unless you have a time machine" error indicating that it has been put on the list for recycle but still hasn't been.
I would honestly pay actual money to have the username free up at this point because I am getting sick of waiting.

Waiting for almost 3 years for a username - he follows one accoutn (justin) and doesn't seem to do anything in the platform ever since.

The username feature should allow the swapping of two usernames on accounts you own. I pocketed a username years ago, just to find out I cant ever use it without risking it being taken by somebody else once it becomes free.

Waiting for a username since 3 years now and twitch gives a fuck at it. I wrote 2 emails in 3 years and i only get these standard blah blah response.

There are 2 names that i've been waiting for and they have been inactve for over a year now.

It's kinda frustrating when a blank account, that has ZERO activity whatsoever, prevents you from using a name that would help your channel branding. :(

Same here. I've been waiting for quite a long time (ever since the blog was posted explaining that this would happen), hoping that the username I want becomes recycled. This has not happened, and I've come to doubt that I will get it or that they recycle any names at all. Please Twitch, our usernames are important to us.

Its been a year and still nothing. Please sort this out.

I agree been waiting on a new name for over a year

how do i got about getting the name kinglyfe from an inactive acct it has 0 following and 2 followers
my username on twitch rn is kinglyfettv

I thought it was a year and that felt mine to me.

Yeah something has to be done.

Come on Twitch get this sorted already.

I'd give it at least a year before trying to recycle an inactive name, but other than that I agree 100%
I don't mind how Twitch fix it, but 'just keep checking it for a few years' really isn't an acceptable solution.

Very much agreed, especially when they say one thing and do/dont do another. Along with emailing support about it and only ever getting an automated response back that answers nothing,

We need this.

Please recycle some accounts there are so many inactive ones