honestly i tell you i tried 2-3 forums like bitcoingarden , rebellious , but they are not popular as this forum . also not much posts there and people are mostly new . substitute of BTT forum can be reddit discussion , gifthub . you can get news from sites like CCN , Coindesk , Bitcoin.com .

but for a help of advance level you will still need this forum as i saw all big projects started their journey from here (ANN thread) and other discussions .