We need this yesterday

It's a dilemma. While freeing up unused usernames is appealing, I wouldn't want to lose mine, even if I leave Twitch for, say, 10 years—it's a part of me. One idea is a PARTNER ONLY benefit: allowing partners a one-time name transfer from inactive accounts after 5 years of inactivity. Twitch would send warning emails to the account owner, and if there's no response, the name transfers to the partner.

2 years no activity

8 Years and nothing? Get it together twitch. Your support is absolute trash.

Planned for 7+ years? Does anyone actually read this at twitch? Do these suggestions do anything? This whole user voice thing seems dead

Bumping this!

2 years COMPLETE inactivity seems fair

I think a year would be suitable. Clicking an email once a year isn't too much to ask, especially with 3/4 emails warning a few weeks before.

A full 2 year stent of not login in or login in through a different name on the same account. This should also go for partners unless they say they want to keep there name locked. But i have a name that i want to get and its been tied up for years its 100% inactive because its was created from my discord intergration. no one logs into any them

Just make it a year or two of inactivity before you start warning that the account will be deactivated, and give the user a like a month or so to respond. Warn them multiple times. Just let them click a link in the email to keep the account, and reset it for another year. If they don’t click it after a month, they lose the username but get to keep their account, and have to come up with a new one next time they sign in.

I believe a three year period should suffice.

8 years later. Did anything happen?

3 months without login should be Nice I guess

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There's an account I want that is 3 years with no activity TWITCH PLEASE

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Still waiting on developer/process update. Still waiting on the username recycle. The community is still waiting Twitch...

3 years ago i made an account. I deleted it to release it to me. Every month for 36 months I’ve checked to see if I can use it. NO ONE has used it and I still can’t claim it.
The system doesn’t work.

If anyone from twitch wants to verify 03512807 is the case

1 year of no user activity

1/2 years seems reasonable, this has been taking too long especially for people who want to build a community before partner under one name everywhere. Been waiting for a few years now to claim a name but never anything has happened with their recycle policy.

6-12 months would be fair. Over a span of 3-5 emails to give plentiful notice and warning to the user