"I think, in the original thread, we were discriminating between Folk Clubs and Sessions/Singarounds.
If you insist on grouping the two together (and they aren't the same thing, nor even attended by the same people in general) then, sure, things look very healthy."

I don't recognize that description. (I've already mentioned quite a few of the clubs I'm thinking of.) Innumerable folk clubs have both "Singers Nights" and "Guest Nights"; all the folk clubs I've been to have managed to cram in a lot of floorspots even on their "Guest Nights".

Maybe I've just been lucky in the folk clubs I've attended, but to say of singarounds and folk clubs "they aren't the same thing, nor even attended by the same people in general" quite simply isn't true of the places I've been.

(Tangent: I also, in principle, disagree with any kind of laying down of a law that a "Singaround" by definition is not a "Folk Club". Says who?! If I want to start a folk club that never has any extended, full-length sets, I reserve the right to call it a folk club! I'm anti the capitalization of such things; I prefer things lower-case and unstandardized)