Changing "Default Pinned Models" in admin settings had no effect for anyone who had already opened Open WebUI once. The sidebar copied the admin default into that user's own settings the first time it rendered and saved it to the server, which marked them as having customized their pins, so every later change to the default was ignored for them. Merely loading the page was enough, the user never had to touch a pin.
The default is now resolved for display only, through a shared store that falls back to the admin list while the user has no pins of their own, the same way default models already work. Nothing is written to the user's settings until they actually pin, unpin or reorder something, at which point their choice takes over for good. Unpinning everything still persists an empty list rather than snapping back to the default.
Users whose settings were already overwritten by the old behaviour keep that copy, since a stored pin list cannot be told apart from a deliberate one.
Fixes a drag-reorder path that mixed sidebar positions with stored ones, and stops the sidebar section reopening itself after any unrelated settings change.
When navigating from a chat to a non-chat route (e.g. the admin panel),
the previously-viewed chat stayed selected in the sidebar and
deleting/archiving it wrongly redirected back to the new-chat page.
Cloning a chat also left the source chat highlighted alongside the new
clone, so two chats appeared selected at once.
Two independent sources kept the stale selection:
- The chatId store was never cleared when the Chat component unmounted,
so $chatId still pointed at the last-viewed chat (this drove the
delete/archive redirect). Clear chatId/chatTitle in Chat's onDestroy.
- The sidebar's optimistic selectedChatId highlight, set on click, was
only cleared on window blur (hence it appeared to fix itself after a
tab switch) and never followed programmatic navigation. Bind it to the
chatId store so it tracks the active chat for leave, delete and clone.
