diff --git a/content/default.nix b/content/default.nix
index a53fdbaa..397ffb7e 100644
--- a/content/default.nix
+++ b/content/default.nix
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ in
 {
   imports = with lib.fileset; toList (difference (fileFilter ({ hasExt, ... }: hasExt "nix") ./.) ./default.nix);
 
+  collections.news.type = config.content-types.article;
+
   pages.index = {
     title = "Fediversity";
     locations = [
diff --git a/structure/content-types.nix b/structure/content-types.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..22b07962
--- /dev/null
+++ b/structure/content-types.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+{ config, lib, options, ... }:
+let
+  inherit (lib)
+    mkOption
+    types
+    ;
+  cfg = config;
+in
+{
+  options = {
+    content-types = mkOption {
+      description = "Content types";
+      type = with types; attrsOf deferredModule;
+    };
+  };
+  config.content-types = {
+    page = { name, config, ... }: {
+      options = {
+        name = mkOption {
+          description = "Symbolic name for the page, used as a human-readable identifier";
+          type = types.str;
+          default = name;
+        };
+        title = mkOption {
+          description = "Page title";
+          type = types.str;
+          default = name;
+        };
+        locations = mkOption {
+          description = ''
+            List of historic output locations for the resulting file
+
+            The first element is the canonical location.
+            All other elements are used to create redirects to the canonical location.
+          '';
+          type = with types; nonEmptyListOf str;
+        };
+        link = mkOption {
+          description = "Helper function for transparent linking to other pages";
+          type = with types; functionTo str;
+          default = target: "TODO: compute the relative path based on `locations`";
+        };
+        outPath = mkOption {
+          description = ''
+            Location of the page, used for transparently creating links
+          '';
+          type = types.str;
+          default = lib.head config.locations;
+        };
+        description = mkOption {
+          description = ''
+            One-sentence description of page contents
+          '';
+          type = types.str;
+        };
+        summary = mkOption {
+          description = ''
+            One-paragraph summary of page contents
+          '';
+          type = types.str;
+        };
+        body = mkOption {
+          description = ''
+            Page contents in CommonMark
+          '';
+          type = types.str;
+        };
+        template = mkOption {
+          description = ''
+            Function that converts the page contents to files
+          '';
+          type = with types; functionTo (functionTo options.files.type);
+          default = cfg.templates.page;
+        };
+      };
+    };
+
+    article = { config, collectionName, ... }: {
+      imports = [ cfg.content-types.page ];
+      options = {
+        date = mkOption {
+          description = "Publication date";
+          type = with types; nullOr str;
+          default = null;
+        };
+        author = mkOption {
+          description = "Page author";
+          type = with types; nullOr (either str (listOf str));
+          default = null;
+        };
+      };
+      config.name = lib.slug config.title;
+      config.outPath = "${collectionName}/${lib.head config.locations}";
+      config.template = cfg.templates.article;
+    };
+  };
+}
diff --git a/structure/default.nix b/structure/default.nix
index d53316d2..b99cf197 100644
--- a/structure/default.nix
+++ b/structure/default.nix
@@ -5,101 +5,15 @@ let
     types
     ;
   cfg = config;
-  types' = {
-    article = { config, collectionName, ... }: {
-      imports = [ types'.page ];
-      options = {
-        date = mkOption {
-          description = "Publication date";
-          type = with types; nullOr str;
-          default = null;
-        };
-        author = mkOption {
-          description = "Page author";
-          type = with types; nullOr (either str (listOf str));
-          default = null;
-        };
-      };
-      config.name = lib.slug config.title;
-      config.outPath = "${collectionName}/${lib.head config.locations}";
-      config.template = cfg.templates.article;
-    };
-
-    page = { name, config, ... }: {
-      options = {
-        name = mkOption {
-          description = "Symbolic name for the page, used as a human-readable identifier";
-          type = types.str;
-          default = name;
-        };
-        title = mkOption {
-          description = "Page title";
-          type = types.str;
-          default = name;
-        };
-        locations = mkOption {
-          description = ''
-            List of historic output locations for the resulting file
-
-            The first element is the canonical location.
-            All other elements are used to create redirects to the canonical location.
-          '';
-          type = with types; nonEmptyListOf str;
-        };
-        link = mkOption {
-          description = "Helper function for transparent linking to other pages";
-          type = with types; functionTo str;
-          default = target: "TODO: compute the relative path based on `locations`";
-        };
-        outPath = mkOption {
-          description = ''
-            Location of the page, used for transparently creating links
-          '';
-          type = types.str;
-          default = lib.head config.locations;
-        };
-        description = mkOption {
-          description = ''
-            One-sentence description of page contents
-          '';
-          type = types.str;
-        };
-        summary = mkOption {
-          description = ''
-            One-paragraph summary of page contents
-          '';
-          type = types.str;
-        };
-        body = mkOption {
-          description = ''
-            Page contents in CommonMark
-          '';
-          type = types.str;
-        };
-        template = mkOption
-          {
-            description = ''
-              Function that converts the page contents to files
-            '';
-            type = with types; functionTo (functionTo options.files.type);
-            default = cfg.templates.page;
-          };
-      };
-    };
-  };
 in
 {
-  # TODO: split out:
-  # - extra module system types into lib'
-  # - page and article types into their own module values under structure/${page,article}.nix
-  #   yes, actually. those types should probably be configurable
-  config.collections.news.type = types'.article;
+  imports = [ ./content-types.nix ];
 
   options.pages = mkOption {
     description = ''
       Collection of pages on the site
     '';
-    type = with types; attrsOf (submodule types'.page);
+    type = with types; attrsOf (submodule config.content-types.page);
   };
 
   options.collections = mkOption
@@ -222,7 +136,6 @@ in
     in
     pages // collections;
 
-
   options.build = mkOption {
     description = ''
       The final output of the web site