Suggestion: emoji picker search improvement

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Today I was trying to find the :tada: emoji (officially called party popper, but shorted to :tada:) and muscle memory (with MacOS) has me trained to expect finding it by searching for party:

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However, Discourse’s emoji picker doesn’t find it for the same search term, even if it is part of the emoji name.

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Perhaps the emojis official names could be an alias to each emoji (when they differ from the short version) to improve search on the emoji picker?

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I think we already have a built in mechanism for “aliases” @joffreyjaffeux I recall we discussed this problem previously.

I love the idea of upping the party level in our emoji selector.

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Duplicate of Add English and translated aliases for Emojis

The data we need is maintained by the unicode consortium, here is the party popper:

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