[_asummers]

Absolutely, and I'm thankful for all the hard work you all put in. I sound more annoyed than I am, and I know it was worse years ago before hex came around. Why can't Hex mind read yet?! :P

I think indexing GH READMEs would go a long way to helping the discovery problem, perhaps utilizing the new GH tags thing in some capacity, even letting authors tag their own packages. That would help in this specific case though this is of course a pathological example I happened to find recently. Maybe also having a "people who have X as a dependency also tend to download Y", though I'm not sure if you have that information outside of direct dependency graphs on Hex packages.

I feel like many newer languages have this problem, but the weird thing about Elixir is the 20-30 years of Erlang libs that are out there that are great that people have issues finding. It's worse if the libs aren't on Hex, and anecdotally I think people have been moving to Hex more lately for Erlang libs.