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+### Channel configuration for each protocol.
+:warning: Needs to be lowercase
+Below you can find how the channels (protocolchannel, and protocol2channel) should be filled in
+```
+* irc        - #channel (# is required) 
+* slack      - channel (without the #)
+* discord    - channel (without the #)
+* mattermost - channel (the channel name as seen in the URL, not the displayname)
+               https://yourmattermostserver/yourteam/channels/yourchannel <- yourchannel
+* gitter     - username/room (as seen in the gitter.im url)
+* xmpp       - channel
+* telegram   - chatid (a large negative number, eg -123456789)
+  see (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/telegram-bots-beginners-marco-frau)
+* hipchat    - id_channel (see https://www.hipchat.com/account/xmpp for the correct channel)
+* rocketchat - #channel (# is required (also needed for private channels!)
+* matrix     - #channel:server (eg #yourchannel:matrix.org)
+               encrypted rooms are not supported in matrix
+* steam      - chatid (a large number).
+               The number in the URL when you click "enter chat room" in the browser
+```
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