I think apart from Altcoinstalks!! i am not sure there is really any other forum out there that kind of comes close to Bitcointalk and like some people already said.. Bitcointalk has the history and the crowd to go with it!! and for another platform to match that level of community engagement i honestly feel it will be a bit hard. Even when i was still a newbie here!! i also tried checking around the internet for alternative platforms like Bitcointalk forum, but annoyingly most crypto forums i found were either dead!! full of spam or they are just not active enough to be useful to engage with unless of cousre you want to be downloading annoying pop ups extentions to your google chromes becuase the kind of fake ads that will pop up to you at every scroll of a mouse is alerming.. that’s why i fully stayed here and focusing on contributing the little i could and also learning in the process.

Bitcointalk might look old school in terms of the interface!!! but the knowledge, resources and real discussions you will mostly find here are hard to beat anywhere else i can confidently say that.