...what's a username refresh?

Accounts that have had heavy activity would probably be best to never allow to be opened. Accounts with moderate activity could be about a year (this happen and you can't go on). Light activity about 6 months, and virtually no activity about 3 months.

Possibly allow account to 'bench' their accounts if they're going away for a while, which would triple the duration of how long until it's freed.

Anything around 6 months to 1 year would be fair in my opinion.

Any update on the possibility of username refresh? I think it would make some people happy :)

The user should make the username they desire in the first place.

If you contact twitch they can do this for you I believe however there might be certain conditions or something not sure. I have def seem people change name without making a new account however.

Users should have the ability to change their username so that they don't have to result in creating a new account so that they may have the username they desire.

6 months would be enough I guess
Who would make an account then leave it for 6 months anyway

Month or 2

Since it's all just a database, I'd propose that a Username only gets flagged for expiration if someone tries to sign up and gets a collision. If you have a rare/unique username that there has been no interest in it could avoid being expired.

Extending the expiration could be in 6 month chunks with monthly, then weekly, and perhaps 2 or 3 the last week before the expiration.

18 months. Give warnings every month starting at 12 months.

I'd have to say about 2 years with warnings every month from 18-23 months and maybe a warning once a week in the last month.

18 months with an email notice of removal after 1 year. Sounds fair.

1 year. Give notice at 10 and 11 months. And clear any remaining Justin names which can't be used.

I think it would be a great idea to free unactive name after about a year the user don't connect to his account.

So here's my idea, after maybe 12 months without logging into the account an email gets sent to that user asking them if they want to keep the account or if you can delete it, if they don't reply at all after a month(?) you delete it anyways.

A year of inactivity should be enough to warrant the deletion of that account and the freeing up of the username attached to said account.

I feel that after a year of inactivity, message the account twice.Once at the beginning of the month and once right before the end.If they don't respond by the end of the 30 days, then you can deactivate the account.

or if the account is inactive, as in, never used in chat, or even logged in to

There should be a request system to request the taken username, if that username has not been active for 1 year, and has had no new followers, subs or videos in that time period, it should be given to the requester, if it is the username of an old streamer and they decide to come back after a year and finds their username has been taken, there should be a system to request it back, then the same goes again, but maybe 1 week if the original requester has no new followers, subs or videos, the original owner will be given their username back, this seems like allot of work, but could work