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Yup, I know is_home() is for the blog page. What I was suggesting was that since is_front_page() doesn’t work (which it should) so maybe try is_home() and see if something isn’t setup properly.

I’m assuming you didn’t create a new page template called “Activity Stream”. In the bp-default functions.php, there are a number of functions that inject the “Activity Stream” option into the drop down box for static “Front Page”. My thought is that this method isn’t setting up something completely so the standard template tags aren’t working.