Thanks for signing up and sharing your feedback. This comes up a often and there are a lot of for and against opinions for both scenarios. The main reason we h

Thanks for signing up and sharing your feedback. This comes up a often and there are a lot of for and against opinions for both scenarios. The main reason we have chosen to keep the Dogfights tab first is due to the long term value of that tab itself - based on our minimal, but varied research. If we were to show the Popular/Active tabs first many users may fail to see the value/point in connecting with their friends and chasing other users. It's probably a hot topic ripe for debate (lol) but just to get the point across - imagine if Twitter/Facebook were to show the "Active" tab first from people who aren't your friends. For me and many others it would be a constant stream of noise from people you may not know nor be interested in following - which would then force a user to keep switching tabs back to the people I follow. We have chosen to set a user up for the future, rather than appeal to their instant gratification of a stream of active noise. We will be reworking the model in future to connect users to friends initially and also showing Dogfights on the front page without being logged in - hopefully this will help that 'empty' feeling. This is purely the decision we have come to and is not the only way to go about it. It's just what we feel works best for our long term users. Thanks for asking!