The unread count sat as a static inline pill that floated low and to the
right of the inbox icon, not matching the corner-anchored badges on the
notification and chat icons next to it. Mirror Harmony's notification
markup — wrap the icon and count in an inline position-relative span and
position the badge with top-0/start-100/translate-middle — so the unread
bubble tucks into the icon corner at the same height as its neighbours.
Verified in the dev forum: the unread and notification badges now share
the same size, shape, and vertical position.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds an Unread dropdown to the topbar utilities (before notifications), per docs/superpowers/plans/2026-07-17-topbar-unread-drawer.md.
- New partial `templates/partials/header/unread-drawer.tpl`: toggle with live `component="unread/count"` badge (core socket updates), server-rendered empty/footer rows.
- `public/client.js`: on dropdown open, fetches `GET /api/unread` and injects up to 10 topic rows (titles/categories via textContent only); fetch failure falls back to the empty state.
- Mobile burger drawer gets an Unread row with the same badge.
- SCSS: unread dropdown joins the shared dropdown width rule; flex row styles for topic items.
Deviations from the plan's example code, found by live verification against the dev forum:
- Plan's `api.get('/unread')` hits the v3 write API and 404s → replaced with a fetch of the `/api/unread` read route.
- NodeBB 4 has no global `window.require`, so runtime translation of the static `[[unread:...]]` strings never ran → those strings are now server-rendered in the template (also removes the plan's translate-over-innerHTML step, which would have re-parsed untrusted titles as HTML).
Verified: full plain-node test suite passes; Playwright against the dev container passed all checks (badge count, item ordering before notifications, dropdown topic links + navigation, /unread footer link, mobile drawer badge at 390px).
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Co-authored-by: vickydotbat <vickydotbat@tutamail.com>
Co-committed-by: vickydotbat <vickydotbat@tutamail.com>
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