diff --git a/Manifest.toml b/Manifest.toml
index 2f41a95..264227f 100644
--- a/Manifest.toml
+++ b/Manifest.toml
@@ -13,12 +13,6 @@ git-tree-sha1 = "b530fbeb6f41ab5a83fbe3db1fcbe879334bcd2d"
 uuid = "b99e7846-7c00-51b0-8f62-c81ae34c0232"
 version = "0.4.2"
 
-[[Codecs]]
-deps = ["Test"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "70885e5e038cba1c4c17a84ad6c40756e10a4fb5"
-uuid = "19ecbf4d-ef7c-5e4b-b54a-0a0ff23c5aed"
-version = "0.5.0"
-
 [[Compat]]
 deps = ["Base64", "Dates", "DelimitedFiles", "Distributed", "InteractiveUtils", "LibGit2", "Libdl", "LinearAlgebra", "Markdown", "Mmap", "Pkg", "Printf", "REPL", "Random", "Serialization", "SharedArrays", "Sockets", "SparseArrays", "Statistics", "Test", "UUIDs", "Unicode"]
 git-tree-sha1 = "ae262fa91da6a74e8937add6b613f58cd56cdad4"
@@ -144,9 +138,3 @@ uuid = "cf7118a7-6976-5b1a-9a39-7adc72f591a4"
 
 [[Unicode]]
 uuid = "4ec0a83e-493e-50e2-b9ac-8f72acf5a8f5"
-
-[[YAML]]
-deps = ["Codecs", "Compat", "Pkg"]
-git-tree-sha1 = "3bde77cee95cce0c0b9b18813d85e18e8ed4f415"
-uuid = "ddb6d928-2868-570f-bddf-ab3f9cf99eb6"
-version = "0.3.2"
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 979faaa..08e66f0 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -11,4 +11,3 @@ Markdown = "d6f4376e-aef5-505a-96c1-9c027394607a"
 Nettle = "49dea1ee-f6fa-5aa6-9a11-8816cee7d4b9"
 REPL = "3fa0cd96-eef1-5676-8a61-b3b8758bbffb"
 URIParser = "30578b45-9adc-5946-b283-645ec420af67"
-YAML = "ddb6d928-2868-570f-bddf-ab3f9cf99eb6"
diff --git a/src/MatrixChat.jl b/src/MatrixChat.jl
index bc34605..c299c37 100644
--- a/src/MatrixChat.jl
+++ b/src/MatrixChat.jl
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ module MatrixChat
 
 using HTTP
 using JSON
-using YAML
 using Nettle
 using Dates
 
diff --git a/src/repl.jl b/src/repl.jl
index d5db453..a7dc736 100644
--- a/src/repl.jl
+++ b/src/repl.jl
@@ -742,9 +742,14 @@ function repl_init(repl)
     return
 end
 
-function load_config_file(; configfile::String = expanduser("~/matrix/config.yaml"))
+function load_config_file(; configfile::String = expanduser("~/matrix/config.jl"))
     if isfile(configfile)
-        config = YAML.load_file(configfile)
+        config = try
+            include(configfile)
+        catch e
+            @error "Malformed config file!"
+            throw(e)
+        end
     else
         # First run, create a new user/login and create the config file
         @error "First run not implemented!"
diff --git a/src/users.jl b/src/users.jl
index 951e68c..298d12f 100644
--- a/src/users.jl
+++ b/src/users.jl
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ function new_user(s::MatrixServer,
 
     parsed = String(raw_response.body)
     write("$(username).json", parsed)
+    parsed = JSON.json(parsed)
     MatrixUser(s,
                parsed["user_id"], parsed["access_token"],
                parsed["device_id"])