For me discovering new projects has always been by perusing these forums. 
Anything that doesn't even announce itself on BitCoinTalk always seemed to me to probably be such crap that they preferred not to expose themselves to the kind of expert scrutiny denizens of these forums can bring to bear.
-MarkM-
Anything that doesn't even announce itself on BitCoinTalk always seemed to me to probably be such crap that they preferred not to expose themselves to the kind of expert scrutiny denizens of these forums can bring to bear.
-MarkM-
The forums used to be #1 place for alphas back in the ICO era but things have evolved since then. Some of the biggest and successful project launches in the recent years have had little to no presence on the forum.
Take HyperLiquid for instance: It's the biggest airdrop in history ($7.5B in value) and they didn't have any forum ANN which used to be one of the most important criteria for upcoming project launches in the past.
As those who have come before me always say, "change is constant".