There IS something wrong with Mudcat, but it's not the format: those other forums are simple clones, all using out-of-the-box software so they all look the same (give or take the decoration), and with the same categories etc. etc. as a consequence. Mudcat's problem is that of folk music in general (talking from a UK perspective). We failed to pass it on, and we're getting VERY old now. There are young musicians and singers and dancers, but wherever they do talk about it, it ain't here (odd shining exceptions of course). I was at a folk festival a couple of weeks ago- looked round at the crowd, and thought, half of you won't be here in 5 years time, three quarters in ten years, and not one in twenty in 2030. The under 30s who weren't there under duress could have been counted on the fingers of one stereotypical Fenlander.