Good point. I like to browse github projects by stars and npm packages by downloads which helps to identify the popular software. The search engines are not r

Good point. I like to browse github projects by stars and npm packages by downloads which helps to identify the popular software. The search engines are not really optimized for this usage though, and long form reviews would be a nice addition. Right now you need to combine the search ordered by popularity with google or stack overflow searches to get the more qualitative information you would get from user reviews.