diff --git a/abaddon.cpp b/abaddon.cpp
index d905b05..06dfab8 100644
--- a/abaddon.cpp
+++ b/abaddon.cpp
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
 Abaddon::Abaddon()
     : m_settings("abaddon.ini")
     , m_emojis("res/emojis.bin")
-    , m_discord(m_settings.GetSettingBool("discord", "memory_db", false)) { // stupid but easy
+    , m_discord(m_settings.GetUseMemoryDB()) { // stupid but easy
     LoadFromSettings();
 
     // todo: set user agent for non-client(?)
-    std::string ua = m_settings.GetSettingString("http", "user_agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36");
+    std::string ua = m_settings.GetUserAgent();
     m_discord.SetUserAgent(ua);
 
     m_discord.signal_gateway_ready().connect(sigc::mem_fun(*this, &Abaddon::DiscordOnReady));
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ int Abaddon::StartGTK() {
 }
 
 void Abaddon::LoadFromSettings() {
-    std::string token = m_settings.GetSettingString("discord", "token");
+    std::string token = m_settings.GetDiscordToken();
     if (token.size()) {
         m_discord_token = token;
         m_discord.UpdateToken(m_discord_token);
diff --git a/components/chatmessage.cpp b/components/chatmessage.cpp
index 5a076c6..5a883b7 100644
--- a/components/chatmessage.cpp
+++ b/components/chatmessage.cpp
@@ -622,7 +622,7 @@ void ChatMessageItemContainer::HandleCustomEmojis(Gtk::TextView *tv) {
 }
 
 void ChatMessageItemContainer::HandleEmojis(Gtk::TextView *tv) {
-    static bool emojis = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().GetSettingBool("gui", "emojis", true);
+    static bool emojis = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().GetShowEmojis();
     if (emojis) {
         HandleStockEmojis(tv);
         HandleCustomEmojis(tv);
@@ -712,8 +712,7 @@ void ChatMessageItemContainer::HandleLinks(Gtk::TextView *tv) {
     Glib::ustring text = GetText(buf);
 
     // i'd like to let this be done thru css like .message-link { color: #bitch; } but idk how
-    auto &settings = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings();
-    static auto link_color = settings.GetSettingString("misc", "linkcolor", "rgba(40, 200, 180, 255)");
+    static auto link_color = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().GetLinkColor();
 
     int startpos = 0;
     Glib::MatchInfo match;
diff --git a/components/memberlist.cpp b/components/memberlist.cpp
index 452022c..befc2bd 100644
--- a/components/memberlist.cpp
+++ b/components/memberlist.cpp
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ MemberListUserRow::MemberListUserRow(Snowflake guild_id, const User *data) {
     m_label->set_single_line_mode(true);
     m_label->set_ellipsize(Pango::ELLIPSIZE_END);
     if (data != nullptr) {
-        static bool show_discriminator = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().GetSettingBool("gui", "member_list_discriminator", true);
+        static bool show_discriminator = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().GetShowMemberListDiscriminators();
         std::string display = data->Username;
         if (show_discriminator)
             display += "#" + data->Discriminator;
diff --git a/filecache.cpp b/filecache.cpp
index 2b454f6..3997156 100644
--- a/filecache.cpp
+++ b/filecache.cpp
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 #include "filecache.hpp"
 #include "murmurhash3.h"
 
-constexpr static const int MaxConcurrentCacheHTTP = 10;
-
 Cache::Cache() {
     m_tmp_path = std::filesystem::temp_directory_path() / "abaddon-cache";
     std::filesystem::create_directories(m_tmp_path);
@@ -38,7 +36,7 @@ void Cache::GetFileFromURL(std::string url, callback_type cb) {
 
     // needs to be initialized like this or else ::Get() is called recursively
     if (!m_semaphore)
-        m_semaphore = std::make_unique<Semaphore>(Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().GetSettingInt("http", "concurrent", MaxConcurrentCacheHTTP));
+        m_semaphore = std::make_unique<Semaphore>(Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().GetCacheHTTPConcurrency());
 
     if (m_callbacks.find(url) != m_callbacks.end()) {
         m_callbacks[url].push_back(cb);
diff --git a/settings.cpp b/settings.cpp
index 37a30e4..e5ecd52 100644
--- a/settings.cpp
+++ b/settings.cpp
@@ -34,3 +34,30 @@ void SettingsManager::Close() {
     m_ini.SaveFile(m_filename.c_str());
 }
 
+bool SettingsManager::GetUseMemoryDB() const {
+    return GetSettingBool("discord", "memory_db", false);
+}
+
+std::string SettingsManager::GetUserAgent() const {
+    return GetSettingString("http", "user_agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36");
+}
+
+std::string SettingsManager::GetDiscordToken() const {
+    return GetSettingString("discord", "token");
+}
+
+bool SettingsManager::GetShowMemberListDiscriminators() const {
+    return GetSettingBool("gui", "member_list_discriminator", true);
+}
+
+bool SettingsManager::GetShowEmojis() const {
+    return GetSettingBool("gui", "emojis", true);
+}
+
+std::string SettingsManager::GetLinkColor() const {
+    return GetSettingString("misc", "linkcolor", "rgba(40, 200, 180, 255)");
+}
+
+int SettingsManager::GetCacheHTTPConcurrency() const {
+    return GetSettingInt("http", "concurrent", 10);
+}
diff --git a/settings.hpp b/settings.hpp
index cb2e824..c2a292d 100644
--- a/settings.hpp
+++ b/settings.hpp
@@ -8,21 +8,32 @@ public:
     SettingsManager(std::string filename);
 
     void Close();
-    std::string GetSettingString(const std::string &section, const std::string &key, std::string fallback = "") const;
-    int GetSettingInt(const std::string &section, const std::string &key, int fallback) const;
-    bool GetSettingBool(const std::string &section, const std::string &key, bool fallback) const;
+    bool GetUseMemoryDB() const;
+    std::string GetUserAgent() const;
+    std::string GetDiscordToken() const;
+    bool GetShowMemberListDiscriminators() const;
+    bool GetShowEmojis() const;
+    std::string GetLinkColor() const;
+    int GetCacheHTTPConcurrency() const;
+
+    bool IsValid() const;
 
     template<typename T>
     void SetSetting(std::string section, std::string key, T value) {
-        if constexpr (std::is_same<T, std::string>::value)
-            m_ini.SetValue(section.c_str(), key.c_str(), value.c_str());
-        else
-            m_ini.SetValue(section.c_str(), key.c_str(), std::to_string(value).c_str());
-
+        m_ini.SetValue(section.c_str(), key.c_str(), std::to_string(value).c_str());
         m_ini.SaveFile(m_filename.c_str());
     }
 
-    bool IsValid() const;
+    template<>
+    void SetSetting<std::string>(std::string section, std::string key, std::string value) {
+        m_ini.SetValue(section.c_str(), key.c_str(), value.c_str());
+        m_ini.SaveFile(m_filename.c_str());
+    }
+
+private:
+    std::string GetSettingString(const std::string &section, const std::string &key, std::string fallback = "") const;
+    int GetSettingInt(const std::string &section, const std::string &key, int fallback) const;
+    bool GetSettingBool(const std::string &section, const std::string &key, bool fallback) const;
 
 private:
     bool m_ok;