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Better signalling of unread favourites/rooms in Home tab

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A-Room-List T-Enhancement X-Needs-Design
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Description

Currently, seeing which rooms are unread/have notifications at a glance from the home tab isn't really possible, below an example:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22740616/109412606-3032c680-79a9-11eb-89ec-9f1b5bfdc85f.jpeg)

The bottom two rooms show they have unread messages *only* by having a slightly bolder text, this is impossible to distinguish on first glance.

### Proposal

Make it so that unread rooms either have a ~~"unread counter" or an~~ "unread (empty round) badge", whichever is applicable, at a top-right corner of a room, similarly to wider Apple UX/UI.

Edit: I just found out the "unread counters" do indeed exist, but the "unread badge", or a better way to signal a "unread but no counter room" is what i mean here.

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