A lot of people have been asking about the new slogan. I first addressed the NG slogan more than two years ago, in this thread.
I still love "The Problems of the Future, Today!" and intend to let it live on as a part of NG, but I have the same issues I had two years ago - it just isn't relevant to what the site has become. NG is a massive creative community that represents all sorts of artists and the old slogan makes it sound like a bad thing. Yeah, the slogan is "edgy" and "cool", but what can I say - I'm not an angsty teen anymore.
I once told a fan that I wouldn't be true to myself if I spent the rest of my life pretending to be an angsty teen in order to cater to the angsty teen market. I had been an angsty teen and thus NG attracted that sort of crowd, but like Bart said on the Simpsons, "making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel."
I like to think NG has all the same "edge" as it always had. After all, we still allow the same content, much to the chagrin of parents and prudes. Being angry and "in your face" is not something I want to dwell on, though. The community is massive and there are a lot of artists looking for support and feedback. I hate seeing negative attitudes prevail on the site when there is so much amazing stuff going on here.
Newgrounds was the first internet community of its kind and a lot of good has come from it. Artists are putting out DVDs, getting sponsorships and finding good jobs as a result of their involvement in the NG community. I actually get a good deal of letters thanking NG for being the catalyst for personal success. I like those emails a lot more than the mean, pushy ones that make all sorts of demands for MORE (though they are duly noted).
With all the good coming from NG, I don't feel the need to put a negative spin on it. NG is no longer the problems of the future today, NG IS THE FUTURE, TODAY. I would change our slogan to "The Future is Now", but that was the Neo Geo slogan. Can you tell I get a lot of inspiration from SNK? :)
As for the new slogan... I came up with it one day while I was in the shower. I was thinking about how NG has grown to include all sorts of content and is basically trying to be everything to everyone. Then I realized, NG is not everything to everyone, it's everything BY everyone... I think that's pretty NEAT.
As for the other complaints about the new header... We'll try making the buttons a little smaller and cutting down the vertical space as much as we can without screwing it up. And I promise, the redesign Stamper is working on LOOKS AMAZING and fits much nicer with the new header, which he has already been tweaking.