When you open TPT and go browse levels, it opens the front page saves. I think it would be great that it would open saves by date automatically because then people will see more good saves that maybe wouldn't have got FP if this wasn't true.
This would ruin the purpose of front page completely. It HAS to be the first thing you see when you open the save browser, or else it wouldn't make any sense to even have it. It would make people get annoyed they have to click an extra button to get there, and / or think all of the saves in tpt suck.
I was considering making "by date" default when you clicked to go to the second page, and still might eventually. Although the front page formula was changed like a month ago, and new saves in by date will often appear on front page anyway, so it's not much of a problem anymore to not have your save noticed.