"We’re reviewing this. Curious how long you think would be ok." - I think to review, 1 day should be ok. Or couple of hours :) One of the longest review in the history of a software development. :)

Banning topic: Ban the account, not the name. Name could be renewed, account not...or...idk. Maybe bad idea. If a banned user create a new account, could take the name again. Or if it is a troll name to harsh somebody, it could be used again and again and again.

I would say 1-2 years is good enough to wait.

I waited ...idk. 3-4 years till I could get mine name and leave the extra chars out from my name. The account was 7 years old that time when I started (Justin TV account), so I the account was in the last 11 years inactive...then it was suddenly without any mention freed up. I think a kind of claim system could help in this. Like if I wanna claim an user name, it could be decided, that when you get. Like contact the actual owner of the name, try it 3 times, and if no answer in 3 Months, 1 year, 2 year, could be given to somebody else.

This is important for creators most likely. So you should have a lot of Information regarding users to be able to contact them.

fingers crossed something is in the works i would love to get my hands on the account ive been waiting so long to get

agreed & it has been 2.5 years of regular checking — please kindly recycle the inactive usernames ♡

same here, I wanted to change my name long ago! Please Twitch, listen to your community.

This idea was originally shared back in May 2015... What progress we've made...

The amount of inactive accounts having usernames that multiple channels that actually stream want/need are impeccable. Twitch should either allow us to take their name or remove the inactive account from being on twitch.

Most of them are accounts that are just made to have the username, none of them have any sort of customisation, activity or presence on Twitch.

This should be implemented asap. The fact that this hasn't been fixed/implemented is beyond me.

Please for the love of God Twitch do something about this.

Please free inactive names. I have been trying to change my name for over 2 years now and the name i have wanted. The account doesnt stream nor makes appearances in channels.

I know there is a current idea.. which is about 7 years old now... please, change the inactive account usernames, allow some of the active Twitch accounts to have their name.

Seria muito bacana se as contas com mais de 1 ou 5 anos ausentes fossem excluídas para não prejudicar os novos usuários. Minhas redes sociais todas tem o mesmo nome mas aqui infelizmente não consigo por causa de uma conta inativa a 5 anos que aparentemente não tem nenhuma configuração ou melhoria no canal, apenas foi criado.

"We’re reviewing this. Curious how long you think would be ok."

Maybe 7 years? At least it has the same time range as your planned status for this. :)

If you do add this, please release an API for developers so we can see if a username lock has been released.
This system, while I understand the request, would play **** for any banlists.
With the year-long string of attacks and the ever-growing lists of bad accounts as a result, this would become quite the headache.

Still waiting on account know is inactive since 2018...

seven years?! quite the review. and i work in tech.

I have been watching a certain account for a long time, it is absolutely inactive, then I looked at its creation date and was overthrown, it has not been active since 2007 and just takes the nickname I need. Please do something !!!

If someone hasn't been active in over 1+ years, I as an affiliate should be able to take their their username for my brand. If an account is idle for over 1 year that should be terminated of their username and sent into the pool.

please re-review this post twitch, a lot of people have brands and names that they want to use here, but can't, because it can be linked to a 4+ year inactive account

If this post will ever be re-viewed by Twitch again, its been only 7 years, maybe also consider allowing to transfer usernames that are linked to the same email. There is no point why you shouldn't be able to rename yourself to an account you own. Deleting it and pray for 6 months that it might get available again is just not a good design choice.

At this point it's been 7 years in review without an update, maybe a better approach would be to let people use some additional special characters in their usernames such as '-', '.', '/', '+', etc in addition to the '_' we get now.

Besides that there's so many twitch users at this point it might be worth considering doing what other platforms like Blizzard Battlenet and Discord do and add a 3 or 4 digit discriminator number to every user so even if two individuals choose the same username they can both exist.

I disagree with this statement - usernames that have been banned should remain banned; if that angers you, be angry with the person who got it banned.
Account's that appear inactive may very well be active as a viewer and not a streamer.

If you wanted a "original" name like "Potato" or "Wizard" you should have arrived on the scene sooner </3

The username I want to change my account to has not been used for over a year now and it was an account that I owned and closed and I have contacted twitch multiple times in regards to it and i just get sent an automated response of stuff i already know,