I would always prefer that you find out for yourself how comfortable you are with an exchange. I hear so many different things about different exchanges, it really dirties the waters. I've have good experiences there....avoid the trollbox, it's called the trollbox for a reason. I go there to try and help people sometimes and try to get them to sign up for steemit to be part of the discussion if they are real people not trolling "buy this, sell this, pump coming"

They are backed well from what I have read, but please research that stuff yourself, and if you find anything damning, please do let me know....I haven't yet.

The have a HUGE ICO market.....I don't like that, because it attracts alot of uninformed traders....so again, avoid the trollbox. But they do offer new pairings all the time. Probably at least once a week. They are growing fast too. Volume used to be a huge issue on some coins, but it's much better now.

They allow (or don't stop) bots, which is annoying, but it doesn't change the market much.

One cool feature is in the top right you can re-arrange the whole page layout however you like it, and they feature their chart or you can switch to Trading View charts.

I really like Binance too. They are similar experiences with different looks and tools. But they both have contests, coin drops, add pairs regularly, the software just works the way it's meant to, and their wallets are super fast.
And both seem really interested in providing the users whatever they want added to the platform, but don't release things without proper testing etc.

Binance is even moving their servers out of China to keep their clients no matter what China does.

Hell, I just saw hitBTC has a referral program, if you want to, sign up under my account: https://hitbtc.com/?ref_id=5a1163eb5aa59

If not, just go to https://www.hitbtc.com and check it out.