diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/forms.py b/tubearchivist/home/forms.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..142d7ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/forms.py
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+"""functionality:
+- hold all form classes used in the views
+"""
+
+from django import forms
+from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
+from django.forms.widgets import PasswordInput, TextInput
+
+
+class CustomAuthForm(AuthenticationForm):
+    """better styled login form"""
+
+    username = forms.CharField(
+        widget=TextInput(attrs={"placeholder": "Username"}), label=False
+    )
+    password = forms.CharField(
+        widget=PasswordInput(attrs={"placeholder": "Password"}), label=False
+    )
+
+
+class UserSettingsForm(forms.Form):
+    """user configurations values"""
+
+    CHOICES = [
+        ("", "-- change color scheme --"),
+        ("dark", "Dark"),
+        ("light", "Light"),
+    ]
+
+    colors = forms.ChoiceField(
+        widget=forms.Select, choices=CHOICES, required=False
+    )
+    page_size = forms.IntegerField(required=False)
+
+
+class ApplicationSettingsForm(forms.Form):
+    """handle all application settings"""
+
+    METADATA_CHOICES = [
+        ("", "-- change metadata embed --"),
+        ("0", "don't embed metadata"),
+        ("1", "embed metadata"),
+    ]
+
+    THUMBNAIL_CHOICES = [
+        ("", "-- change thumbnail embed --"),
+        ("0", "don't embed thumbnail"),
+        ("1", "embed thumbnail"),
+    ]
+
+    subscriptions_channel_size = forms.IntegerField(required=False)
+    downloads_limit_count = forms.IntegerField(required=False)
+    downloads_limit_speed = forms.IntegerField(required=False)
+    downloads_throttledratelimit = forms.IntegerField(required=False)
+    downloads_sleep_interval = forms.IntegerField(required=False)
+    downloads_format = forms.CharField(required=False)
+    downloads_add_metadata = forms.ChoiceField(
+        widget=forms.Select, choices=METADATA_CHOICES, required=False
+    )
+    downloads_add_thumbnail = forms.ChoiceField(
+        widget=forms.Select, choices=THUMBNAIL_CHOICES, required=False
+    )
diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/src/config.py b/tubearchivist/home/src/config.py
index 6e304f5..32402fd 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/src/config.py
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/src/config.py
@@ -86,11 +86,23 @@ class AppConfig:
                 elif to_write.isdigit():
                     to_write = int(to_write)
 
-                config_dict, config_value = key.split(".")
+                config_dict, config_value = key.split("_", maxsplit=1)
                 config[config_dict][config_value] = to_write
 
         RedisArchivist().set_message("config", config, expire=False)
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def set_user_config(form_post, user_id):
+        """set values in redis for user settings"""
+        for key, value in form_post.items():
+            to_write = value[0]
+            if len(to_write):
+                if to_write.isdigit():
+                    to_write = int(to_write)
+                message = {"status": to_write}
+                redis_key = f"{user_id}:{key}"
+                RedisArchivist().set_message(redis_key, message, expire=False)
+
     def load_new_defaults(self):
         """check config.json for missing defaults"""
         default_config = self.get_config_file()
diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/src/searching.py b/tubearchivist/home/src/searching.py
index 2d8dee4..14e8c5a 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/src/searching.py
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/src/searching.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from datetime import datetime
 
 import requests
 from home.src.config import AppConfig
+from home.src.helper import RedisArchivist
 from home.src.thumbnails import ThumbManager
 
 
@@ -181,13 +182,23 @@ class Pagination:
     figure out the pagination based on page size and total_hits
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, page_get, search_get=False):
-        config = AppConfig().config
-        self.page_size = config["archive"]["page_size"]
+    def __init__(self, page_get, user_id, search_get=False):
+        self.user_id = user_id
+        self.page_size = self.get_page_size()
         self.page_get = page_get
         self.search_get = search_get
         self.pagination = self.first_guess()
 
+    def get_page_size(self):
+        """get default or user modified page_size"""
+        key = f"{self.user_id}:page_size"
+        page_size = RedisArchivist().get_message(key)["status"]
+        if not page_size:
+            config = AppConfig().config
+            page_size = config["archive"]["page_size"]
+
+        return page_size
+
     def first_guess(self):
         """build first guess before api call"""
         page_get = self.page_get
diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/templates/home/settings.html b/tubearchivist/home/templates/home/settings.html
index 9dab509..306424b 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/templates/home/settings.html
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/templates/home/settings.html
@@ -1,20 +1,16 @@
 {% extends "home/base.html" %}
 {% block content %}
 <div class="title-bar">
-    <h1>Settings</h1>
+    <h1>User Configurations</h1>
 </div>
-<form action="/settings/" method="POST" name="settings-update">
+<form action="/settings/" method="POST" name="user-update">
     {% csrf_token %}
     <div class="settings-group">
         <h2>Color scheme</h2>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current color scheme: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.application.colors }}</span></p>
             <i>Select your preferred color scheme between dark and light mode.</i><br>
-            <select name="application.colors" id="application.colors">
-                <option value="" disabled selected> -- change color scheme -- </option>
-                <option value="dark">dark mode</option>
-                <option value="light">light mode</option>
-            </select>
+            {{ user_form.colors }}
         </div>
     </div>
     <div class="settings-group">
@@ -22,15 +18,22 @@
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current page size: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.archive.page_size }}</span></p>
             <i>Result of videos showing in archive page</i><br>
-            <input type="number" name="archive.page_size" id="archive.page_size">
+            {{ user_form.page_size }}
         </div>
     </div>
+    <button type="submit" name="user-settings">Update User Configurations</button>
+</form>
+<div class="title-bar">
+    <h1>Application Configurations</h1>
+</div>
+<form action="/settings/" method="POST" name="application-update">
+    {% csrf_token %}
     <div class="settings-group">
         <h2 id="subscriptions">Subscriptions</h2>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current channel page size: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.subscriptions.channel_size }}</span></p>
             <i>Recent videos to check on check pending, max recommended 50.</i><br>
-            <input type="number" name="subscriptions.channel_size" id="subscriptions.channel_size">
+            {{ app_form.subscriptions_channel_size }}
         </div>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Auto scan subscribed channels:</p>
@@ -46,22 +49,22 @@
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current download limit: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.downloads.limit_count }}</span></p>
             <i>Limit the number of videos getting downloaded on every run. 0 (zero) to deactivate.</i><br>
-            <input type="number" name="downloads.limit_count" id="downloads.limit_count">
+            {{ app_form.downloads_limit_count }}
         </div>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current download speed limit: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.downloads.limit_speed }}</span></p>
             <i>Limit download speed. 0 (zero) to deactivate.</i><br>
-            <input type="number" name="downloads.limit_speed" id="downloads.limit_speed"><span>KB/sec</span>
+            {{ app_form.downloads_limit_speed }}
         </div>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current throttled rate limit: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.downloads.throttledratelimit }}</span></p>
             <i>Assume the download is being throttled below this speed and restart. 0 (zero) to deactivate, e.g. 100KB/sec</i><br>
-            <input type="number" name="downloads.throttledratelimit" id="downloads.throttledratelimit"><span>KB/sec</span>
+            {{ app_form.downloads_throttledratelimit }}
         </div>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current scraping sleep interval: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.downloads.sleep_interval }}</p>
             <i>Seconds to sleep between calls to YouTube. Might be necessary to avoid throttling. Recommended 3.</i><br>
-            <input type="number" name="downloads.sleep_interval" id="downloads.sleep_interval">
+            {{ app_form.downloads_sleep_interval }}
         </div>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>External downloader:</p>
@@ -82,29 +85,21 @@
                 <li><span class="settings-current">0</span>: deactivate and download the best quality possible as decided by yt-dlp.</li>
             </ul>
             <i>Make sure your custom format gets merged into a single file. Check out the <a href="https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#format-selection" target="_blank">documentation</a> for valid configurations.</i><br>
-            <input type="text" name="downloads.format" id="downloads.format">
+            {{ app_form.downloads_format }}
             <br>
         </div>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current metadata embed setting: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.downloads.add_metadata }}</span></p>
             <i>Metadata is not embedded into the downloaded files by default.</i><br>
-            <select name="downloads.add_metadata" id="downloads.add_metadata"">
-                <option value="" disabled selected> -- change metadata embed -- </option>
-                <option value="0">don't embed metadata</option>
-                <option value="1">embed metadata</option>
-            </select>
+            {{ app_form.downloads_add_metadata }}
         </div>
         <div class="settings-item">
             <p>Current thumbnail embed setting: <span class="settings-current">{{ config.downloads.add_thumbnail }}</span></p>
             <i>Embed thumbnail into the mediafile.</i><br>
-            <select name="downloads.add_thumbnail" id="downloads.add_thumbnail"">
-                <option value="" disabled selected> -- change thumbnail embed -- </option>
-                <option value="0">don't embed thumbnail</option>
-                <option value="1">embed thumbnail</option>
-            </select>
+            {{ app_form.downloads_add_thumbnail }}
         </div>
     </div>
-    <button type="submit">Update Settings</button>
+    <button type="submit" name="application-settings">Update Application Configurations</button>
 </form>
 <div class="title-bar">
     <h1>Actions</h1>
diff --git a/tubearchivist/home/views.py b/tubearchivist/home/views.py
index 119803c..b08fe6a 100644
--- a/tubearchivist/home/views.py
+++ b/tubearchivist/home/views.py
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ from time import sleep
 from django import forms
 from django.contrib.auth import login
 from django.contrib.auth.forms import AuthenticationForm
-from django.forms.widgets import PasswordInput, TextInput
 from django.http import JsonResponse
 from django.shortcuts import redirect, render
 from django.utils.http import urlencode
@@ -21,6 +20,11 @@ from home.src.download import ChannelSubscription, PendingList
 from home.src.helper import RedisArchivist, RedisQueue, process_url_list
 from home.src.index import WatchState, YoutubeChannel, YoutubeVideo
 from home.src.searching import Pagination, SearchForm, SearchHandler
+from home.forms import (
+    ApplicationSettingsForm,
+    CustomAuthForm,
+    UserSettingsForm
+)
 from home.tasks import (
     download_pending,
     download_single,
@@ -44,7 +48,8 @@ class HomeView(View):
 
     def get(self, request):
         """return home search results"""
-        view_config = self.read_config(user_id=request.user.id)
+        user_id = request.user.id
+        view_config = self.read_config(user_id)
         # handle search
         search_get = request.GET.get("search", False)
         if search_get:
@@ -53,7 +58,9 @@ class HomeView(View):
             search_encoded = False
         # define page size
         page_get = int(request.GET.get("page", 0))
-        pagination_handler = Pagination(page_get, search_encoded)
+        pagination_handler = Pagination(
+            page_get, user_id, search_get=search_encoded
+        )
 
         url = self.ES_URL + "/ta_video/_search"
         data = self.build_data(
@@ -157,17 +164,6 @@ class HomeView(View):
         return redirect(search_url, permanent=True)
 
 
-class CustomAuthForm(AuthenticationForm):
-    """better styled login form"""
-
-    username = forms.CharField(
-        widget=TextInput(attrs={"placeholder": "Username"}), label=False
-    )
-    password = forms.CharField(
-        widget=PasswordInput(attrs={"placeholder": "Password"}), label=False
-    )
-
-
 class LoginView(View):
     """resolves to /login/
     Greeting and login page
@@ -222,10 +218,11 @@ class DownloadView(View):
 
     def get(self, request):
         """handle get requests"""
-        view_config = self.read_config(user_id=request.user.id)
+        user_id = request.user.id
+        view_config = self.read_config(user_id)
 
         page_get = int(request.GET.get("page", 0))
-        pagination_handler = Pagination(page_get)
+        pagination_handler = Pagination(page_get, user_id)
 
         url = view_config["es_url"] + "/ta_download/_search"
         data = self.build_data(
@@ -370,7 +367,7 @@ class ChannelIdView(View):
     def get_channel_videos(self, request, channel_id_detail, view_config):
         """get channel from video index"""
         page_get = int(request.GET.get("page", 0))
-        pagination_handler = Pagination(page_get)
+        pagination_handler = Pagination(page_get, request.user.id)
         # get data
         url = view_config["es_url"] + "/ta_video/_search"
         data = self.build_data(
@@ -465,7 +462,7 @@ class ChannelView(View):
         user_id = request.user.id
         view_config = self.read_config(user_id=user_id)
         page_get = int(request.GET.get("page", 0))
-        pagination_handler = Pagination(page_get)
+        pagination_handler = Pagination(page_get, user_id)
         page_size = pagination_handler.pagination["page_size"]
         page_from = pagination_handler.pagination["page_from"]
         # get
@@ -610,18 +607,35 @@ class SettingsView(View):
         config = AppConfig().config
         colors = config["application"]["colors"]
 
-        context = {"title": "Settings", "config": config, "colors": colors}
+        user_form = UserSettingsForm()
+        app_form = ApplicationSettingsForm()
+
+        context = {
+            "title": "Settings",
+            "config": config,
+            "colors": colors,
+            "user_form": user_form,
+            "app_form": app_form,
+        }
 
         return render(request, "home/settings.html", context)
 
     @staticmethod
     def post(request):
         """handle form post to update settings"""
-        form_post = dict(request.POST)
-        del form_post["csrfmiddlewaretoken"]
-        print(form_post)
-        config_handler = AppConfig()
-        config_handler.update_config(form_post)
+
+        form_response = forms.Form(request.POST)
+        if form_response.is_valid():
+            form_post = dict(request.POST)
+            print(form_post)
+            del form_post["csrfmiddlewaretoken"]
+            config_handler = AppConfig()
+            if "application-settings" in form_post:
+                del form_post["application-settings"]
+                config_handler.update_config(form_post)
+            elif "user-settings" in form_post:
+                del form_post["user-settings"]
+                config_handler.set_user_config(form_post, request.user.id)
 
         return redirect("settings", permanent=True)