Time to bump this up...since toribash is officially in steam:-

1. Live notifications in the overlay window - for invitations to groups, clans or even friend invites in toribash forums in a small notification box in the corner.
Once clicked, it opens a window in the overlay screen directing to that profile/your notifications(usercp.php)while playing/off toribash.

2. An small pop-up windows box, alerting you about an event in forums or in-game globals(which is a bit useful while playing singleplayer/being in your phone since steam is on IOS and android/etc...), which gives it a use - not letting it there only for news and such(which isn't most of us looking for)

The ideas are exactly like what I suggested, but in steam instead of inside of the game itself.

my grammar is the worst...

As simple as it sounds, I think it is possible to do.