...gosh, I thought I actually /knew/ stuff. -_-

I bet this is somewhere totally obvious I haven't looked, but how long does it take for a username to get cleared?

After 12 months of being frozen or inactive an account is ready for being deleted, however it'll probably take a few days, weeks or even months more because the accounts have to be deleted manually and Keith of course hasn't enough time to do it on a daily basis. C:

a year of inactivity, i think

i think it's something a year for users who have just become completely inactive. i believe people who have been frozen have their names cleared after like 8 months.