Emoji selection/picker should favor emojis which are used more often

[barathrm]

Steps to reproduce

In a message input field when I start writing :sweat, the first-selected emoji is 😓. Before, it was 😅.

What happened?

What did you expect?

When I write :sweat I expected Element to present me with a fuzzy-search result over the names and descriptions of the emojis sorted by most often used.

What happened?

The 😓 emoji is always presented first so I can't simply press enter to auto-fill it in.

Me and me and others I know have gotten quite used to using 😅 in chat. However, now the ordering has changed and it's become a hassle to quickly select that emoji. IIRC Even earlier, that emoji was reachable via :embarrassed but that stopped working.

I'd suggest ordering emoji by how often they've been used locally.

Operating system

Debian Stable

Application version

Element version: 1.8.2 Olm version: 3.2.3

How did you install the app?

https://packages.riot.im/debian

Homeserver

matrix.org

Have you submitted a rageshake?

No

[Peque]

Cross-referencing #19044.

[yanndinendal]

I can confirm emoji autocomplete has become quite unusable :(

• lots of aliased names have disappeared (:distressed:, :crazy:, :rofl:, :direct_hit:, etc), (The 🗑️ emoji is super hard to find #18950)
• or got demoted, like the happy :sweat: or :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: (seriously, who has time to type that, and it's the fifth result for :roll; all the other ones before it are really uncommon ones);
• :+ is no longer auto-completable (also :+1 is, but not :+1:): Emoji autocomplete sorting is not temporally consistent after full shortcode match #19302.
• autocomplete forces you to use the vertical popup (before; the first result was already inserted at the first Tab press; you didn't need to confirm / use the autocomplete popup unless you really wanted to circle through the results) (this usability issue is also present when auto-completing usernames).

Note that all this worked properly a few months ago.