Way to sort emojis by name

(#1206) Feature Under consideration emoji

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FullestReviewer 1 vote originally by @Emptiest on GitHub
Just to add on, I think this is a new problem created by our gracious limit of 500 emojis per community. When it was a smaller number, the number of emoji per community was few enough to roughly parse at a glance, and they also roughly self-sorted with separation by community. However now, we don't have that natural separation by community since a single community can host 500 emojis. It may also be good to have an equivalent system for stickers, since that number has increased as well. Also, throwing out one idea I had for this: this overall situation could be improved if we could add additional search terms to custom emoji, much like how many default emoji can be searched by alternate names, even if they only have a single canonical name. For example: 🤘is :sign_of_the_horns: but can also be searched with :metal: and shows up if you search for rock and possibly other terms.