"Useful" is quite subjective, but the popular packages are probably useful to a lot of people.

The most popular elisp projects on github can be found here https://github.com/search?l=emacs-lisp&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E1&s=stars&type=Repositories. But there are three entries right in the top ten which don't belong there.

And then there is http://melpa.org plus clicking twice on "DLs". Here packages that are still under development tend to accumulate more downloads.

Despite these deficits these two resources should give you fairly accurate representation.

"Useful" is quite subjective, but the popular packages are probably useful to a lot of people.

The most popular elisp projects on github can be found here https://github.com/search?l=emacs-lisp&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E1&s=stars&type=Repositories. But there are three entries right in the top ten which don't belong there.

And then there is http://www.melpa.org/#/?sort=downloads&asc=false. Here packages that are still under development tend to accumulate more downloads.

Despite these deficits these two resources should give you fairly accurate representation.

"Useful" is quite subjective, but the popular packages are probably useful to a lot of people.

The most popular elisp projects on github can be found here https://github.com/search?l=emacs-lisp&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E1&s=stars&type=Repositories. But there are three entries right in the top ten which don't belong there.

And then there is http://melpa.org plus clicking twice on "DLs". Here packages that are still under development tend to accumulate more downloads.

Despite this deficits these two resources should give you fairly accurate representation.

"Useful" is quite subjective, but the popular packages are probably useful to a lot of people.

The most popular elisp projects on github can be found here https://github.com/search?l=emacs-lisp&o=desc&q=stars%3A%3E1&s=stars&type=Repositories. But there are three entries right in the top ten which don't belong there.

And then there is http://melpa.org plus clicking twice on "DLs". Here packages that are still under development tend to accumulate more downloads.

Despite these deficits these two resources should give you fairly accurate representation.