Chat title is not generated if chat fails to load for whatever reason

[jamesyc]

What happened?

Impact: This is a big issue with OpenRouter free endpoints like deepseek-r1:free (because the endpoints often get throttled) and OpenAI reasoning models like o3-mini (I suspect because the chat fails while generating the CoT part, and OpenAI doesn't send the CoT over the API)

Issue: the chat title is stuck at "New Chat" if the chat has any disruption to the first message.

Example picture with Google Gemma 3 on OpenRouter (which was released yesterday, and is often throttled). The red error message is not a problem, as the API is throttling the message- the issue is "New Chat" on the left.

Expected behavior: If the main message fails, the "New Chat" title should still be replaced with a summary. For example, when OpenAI o1 and o3-mini messages fail, you can still use 4o-mini to generate the title based off the first human message. Or in the case of OpenRouter, I set llama-3.1-70b-instruct:free to generate the chat title- this rarely gets throttled, so it should basically always succeed.

Ideally, if a chat is titled "New Chat" due to a failed title, LibreChat should check the chat name and retry generating a title. OpenAI does this for chatgpt.com chat titles.

Version Information

I did a git pull just now, so whatever the latest commit is

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a chat with an endpoint that fails to generate the first message
2. Look at the chat title in the left sidebar and see "New Chat"

Expected behavior: seeing "New Chat" at first, but then it updates to a correct chat title after a few seconds (like the chatgpt.com website)

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

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[danny-avila]

This is by design, it's only done once on first successful message, and you can manually rename the title