diff --git a/config.json b/config.json
index ae661db..ff81a51 100644
--- a/config.json
+++ b/config.json
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 {
   "server_port": 60053,
   "server_listen_ip": "127.0.0.1",
-  "debug": true,
+  "debug": false,
   "useragent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0",
   "tw_backend_enabled": true,
   "tw_nickname": "Suborg",
-  "tw_channel": "#suborg",
+  "tw_channel": "#foxyshadow",
   "yt_backend_enabled": false,
   "yt_api_poll_timeout": 1,
   "yt_channel": "@foxyshadow",
diff --git a/src/twitch.go b/src/twitch.go
index ca75c1c..f32278d 100644
--- a/src/twitch.go
+++ b/src/twitch.go
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ func tw_fetch_badge_cache(channelname string) map[string]string {
   broadcaster_id := ""
   var ustruct map[string]interface{}
   /* get broadcaster ID from the channel name */
-  body := tw_api_req(fmt.Sprintf("/users?login=%s", channelname), "")
+  body := tw_api_req("/users?login=" + channelname, "")
   if len(body) > 0 {
     err := json.Unmarshal(body, &ustruct)
     if err == nil {
@@ -281,7 +281,8 @@ func twitch_run(config map[string]interface{}) {
   TW_OAUTH_TOKEN, _ = strings.CutPrefix(config["tw_token"].(string), "oauth:")
   
   /* load the Twitch badge cache */
-  TW_BADGE_CACHE = tw_fetch_badge_cache(config["tw_channel"].(string))
+  chname, _ := strings.CutPrefix(config["tw_channel"].(string), "#")
+  TW_BADGE_CACHE = tw_fetch_badge_cache(chname)
 
   /* Connect to the Twitch IRC server */
   conn, err := net.Dial("tcp", "irc.chat.twitch.tv:6667")