Try Riot Chat for interactive discussion to help you get hooked up quicker.

https://riot.im/app/#/room/#vtorrent:matrix.org

Works better with Firefox.

Scroll up to see some recent information on connecting to the network and some nodes.

Also, there is this help video to help you create a .conf file

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f--GYd-QFuw&t=54s