Platform Hubs are our answer to "where do I start if I'm new to the Commodore 64?" — a single page per platform that surfaces the editorial context, the active discussions, the files, and the FAQs without making you hunt through six forums.
What you'll find on a hub
Each page at /platforms/{slug} has this shape:
- Editorial body — 300-400 words of plain-English context. History, hardware, community notes, buying advice.
- Calls to action — buttons that go to the main forum for that platform and, where available, the emulator.
- Latest threads — 5 most recent threads from forums mapped to this platform.
- Latest files — 5 most recent approved files from mapped file exchange areas (auto-includes every sub-folder).
- Related platforms — cross-links for people who came in on the wrong one.
- FAQs — 3-5 per platform, covering the questions that come up repeatedly.
Umbrella hubs
Three of them are umbrellas: commodore, atari, and apple-ii. Instead of Latest Threads, these show a grid of their member platforms. Apple II covers Apple 2 (the 8-bit line) and Apple 2 GS (the 16-bit IIgs). Commodore covers C64, C128, VIC-20, and both Ultimate products. Atari currently covers the ST.
SEO structure
Each hub emits structured data: CollectionPage JSON-LD, FAQPage JSON-LD (for the rich-snippet accordion in Google), and ItemList (for the latest threads). Sitemap includes every published hub. Canonical URLs are the hub itself so they don't cannibalize the main forums.
Contribute
Logged-in members can propose edits to FAQs and to the editorial body via a "Suggest changes" link on each hub. See the separate Spotlight thread for how that works.
