It was easier eight years ago, I would just look at Bitcointalk threads and be able to make an evaluation pretty quickly. Small scale, relatively more clued in

It was easier eight years ago, I would just look at Bitcointalk threads and be able to make an evaluation pretty quickly. Small scale, relatively more clued in folks. Now the scale is a problem. There are so many projects I know nothing about. Nowadays I usually go to /r/cryptocurrency/new for the firehose. I do not aim to read everything, just check in and take some notes. What tends to happen on that subreddit is that some really great posts get made but never hit frontpage because they're crowded out by useless memetic content. But you can take individual great posts and turn those into leads by doing some additional legwork. I don't usually talk to those users(I do not want to read comment thread replies and will completely ignore my Reddit inbox, instead I will monitor the thread if it interests me) but I will sometimes browse their post history.