diff --git a/freechat-client/src/config.js b/freechat-client/src/config.js
index a5d0809..73ba88f 100644
--- a/freechat-client/src/config.js
+++ b/freechat-client/src/config.js
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
 const { ArgumentParser } = require('argparse')
 const fs = require('fs').promises
 const syncFs = require('fs')
-
-// required because freechat by default uses i64/u64 in json payloads
-// timestamps will get especially rekt'd if we don't parse things correctly
-const JSONBig = require('json-bigint') 
+const JSONBig = require('json-bigint')({storeAsString: true})
 
 class Config {
 	/**
 	 * 
+	 * TODO: change .data out for something not stupid
 	 * @param {String} path path to config on startup
 	 * @param {Object} data Contains actual config data
 	 */
@@ -39,12 +37,13 @@ exports.from_cli_parser = function(parser) {
 	let ret = new Config(path, {})
 
 	// Allow errors from here to bubble up instead of handling them
-
 	fs.readFile(path).then(file => {
 		const json = JSONBig.parse(file)
+		ret.data['servers'] = []
 
-		for(const key of Object.keys(json)) {
-			ret.data[key] = json[key]
+		// TODO: redo this so its let 'yolo'
+		for(const serv of json['servers']) {
+			ret.data['servers'].push(serv)
 		}
 	})
 	.catch(err => console.error(err))
@@ -52,26 +51,3 @@ exports.from_cli_parser = function(parser) {
 	return ret
 }
 
-/**
- * Updates the config with the new object data
- * Called from node's main process
- *
- * @param {Config} config new config data to write
- * @param {String} path | set to 'default' if we're using $HOME/.config/freechat/config.json
- * Set this to anything else to write changes to that specified path
- */
-exports.update_file = function(config, path='default') {
-	if (path == 'default') {
-		path = `${process.env.HOME || process.env.USERPROFILE}/.config/freechat/config.json`
-	} else {
-		path = path
-	}
-
-	const data = JSON.stringify(config, null, 2)
-	fs.writeFile(path, data, function(err) {
-		if(err) { console.error(err) }
-		else { console.log('fine') }
-	})
-}
-
-
diff --git a/freechat-client/src/events.ts b/freechat-client/src/events.ts
index a5278d1..631bed2 100644
--- a/freechat-client/src/events.ts
+++ b/freechat-client/src/events.ts
@@ -54,10 +54,4 @@ export class Event {
 
 		return new Message(mid, time, content, content_type, uid, uname, cid)
 	}
-
-	// Sets up the inner channel data
-	private _channel(obj: Object) : Channel|null {
-		// todo: still require some testing to verify event data is appropriate
-		return null
-	}
 }