It's not being used to it's full potential. When Sir was around, certain amount of posts from the Staff used to appear in Community Hub, right now it died down and it isn'tt really being supervised in any, more visible way. Steam release was a good boost to the general playerbase but most of them didn't stick around for a longer period of time. Some steam players stick to steam and don't really interact with forums and its crowd - Community Hub in its current state won't make stay around. Several new stickies in the steam's discussion area are a must - redirect to support channel could help, one thread with general 'news' about what's going on forums and some small events that'd allow people to sign up both via forums and steam discussion threads. There are more posibilities (how to create clans, where to market/buy and sell stuff and tons of other things) and I hope you will give your own ideas about how to make Toribash steam area a better place.
For it to last, however, there needs to be someone or a group of people (or both) that'd oversee the whole process. It'd need to be a manager of some sort, that would have access to steam magic, able to pin the threads and lead the group of volunteers (possibly focused in an organization on forums).

We had Toriradio with Rutz, we had a blog and a blog team, Torinews, some attempts at recreating Toriradio, some people with streams and podcasts, some toribash-related yt channels - some still exist, some died out. I think that having a certain internal 'media' coverage is a good and interesting idea, it needs to be done properly however, with someone from Staff being responsible for the well-being of the project. What exactly I have in mind?
A group of people that could utilize all ways of communicating with the community - interesting articles/blog posts, anecdotes, interviews, sneak peaks for events/items, podcasts, featured videos, featured art, commentary on certain (big) events like CL etc. A group that you wouldn't need to apply to, to get your piece of work featured - more of a platform for interesting stuff. There is so much more that could be getting featured on facebook page (Skulfuk obviously can't keep track of everything on his own), there are decent people with good content that could be kindly asked for cooperation. Quality wise, from the top of my head, concon, man of fire and mocucha for different types of videos, certain guys for some tips/tutorial artices/videos with commentary (moop for tk, snake for aikido f.ex.), hax (Bodhisattva) and cowmeat for podcasts and so on, I'm sure that the community has people who can write good articles or create different type of quality content as well.
Generally, I would imagine 'The media team' having its own place to work, write WIPs and brainstorm (f.ex. Writer's room, which I guess is currently unused), with a couple of permament members that would have some lmods to be able to post/feature stuff in news/blog subforum, with an ability to do free broadcasts and forum announcements for interesting stuff, while every other memeber of community could send them a piece of his/her work and get it featured if it's good enough or have it properly criticized if it's not (what's good, what's bad, what's need to be improved to get it featured). Irc channel would be the main form of interaction between the members and other users, others, like skype groups, could be considered down the road.

This is rather straight-forward and more of an idea for ES guys to use. Get active (no matter if official or not) organizations involved in the process of creating special, themed events. Back in the days, there used to be certain events made with ORMO and Gata and that would be a good start, to renew that cooperation, but why stop there? Organizations could prove creative if asked to try to develop an event they'd like to see or host - Brazilian Themed Month with a cooperation of Brazilian Org? Special, French event based on some aspect of their culture? Heist like event with details, narration and effects/superpower boosts for players based on certain anime characteristics with Anime United's cooperation? That's just some examples right from the top of my head, I'm sure that members of those orgs would be really creative on their own.

Over a year ago, as a member of GM team, I made an evaluation survey for for the team - The survey, The results - which turned out pretty good, got a decent amount of responses (around 500) and provided the team with some ideas for events, as well as general ideas about what to improve, what to host more, is the team's effort seen as positive etc. As I feel there is certain distance between the community and the staff, it would, in my opinion, prove useful to get users to know better the staff members (media group would help here) and allow them to evaluate the performance of staff from time to time (let's say, twice a year), not only GMs (Event Squad now) but all the other staff usergroups as well. Having solid data is one of the basis for acting effectively and the possibility to observe the changes in community's opinions about certain usergroups, as well as reading the ideas that people would include in their answers, could be used to make better and more rational decisions - in the end, the staff is for the users, no the other way around.
I remember about the existence of 'Ask staff a question' and 'Rate the event squad' threads, but those cannot and will not provide hundreds of votes/grades that well-made surveys could and they do seem pretty inactive/dead at the moment.

The community has been through some heated discussion about esports, new ranking system, mods used by hosting teams for certain events and whatnot. I do not have solution for all of those problems, however, I think that there is a certain move that would make some users happy and allow for the better 'competitive' scene without being too hard to pull off, with no devs needed in the process (matchmaking ideas, ideas for even better ranking are great and all, but needs devs to cooperate and that takes a lot of time - toribash's devbase isn't large).
I propose creating a special subforum (preferably in events) for dueling purposes. A subforum that would have certain amount of dedicated lmods that would take care of it. It would be used for posting replays and logs from duels that happen in-game, as well as looking for duel opponents via forum. Results of duels reported there would go to special sticky with all the results (in the spoilers with user's nicks, with the user with most wins at the top) - it would reset every 3 months. Obviously, noone would force you to report your duels, nor it would mean that the person with the most wins is the best dueler, merely the most active one, however, doing so would earn you some recognition, especially after beating a solid opponent (also, in case of a scam, thread could be easily moved to scam reports). Duels happening there could be both for wagers that could be stated in user's thread or for 'sportsmanship' only.
Example of possible threads below (WD tag - Wager Duel, SD - Sportsmanship duel)


Additional rules, like whether there should be some limits of how many duels you can play with certain user per day/week, if there should be minimal amount of matches for a duel to be counted as valid, what mods are okay to play are up for discussion.
If the idea would work fine, some time later, small, 'user generated' bracket tourneys could happen - User would make a thread that he's looking for 7 other people to play f.ex. brushu bracket, with entry fee 5k. Lmods of the board would collect the 5k from every participant and control whether the tourney is progressing as it should. Once the victor's clear, lmod would transfer the tc to that guy (minimalizing the scamming possibility).

This is an idea I proposed in MS circles some time ago but it got stuck in a limbo, so I'm bringing it to your attention here, for you guys to judge.
Basically, due to a number of scams involving real money and paypal happening, I proposed creating a white list of trusted users, preferably all from Staff, 'Middlemen', that would help with such deals. Once you have a deal involving $, you could go to such person and ask him/her for help. He would receive the toribash part of the deal (items/tc) and would keep them till the $ was successfully transfered (as a gift, to exclude reverting the deals after a month or so) to the other party. Once he confirms that everyting is ok, he would transfer the items/tc. That would allow both parties to avoid getting scammed. I wouldn't make it 'obligatory', only a possibility (still, if someone would refuse using a middlemen, that'd mean you're dealing with some fishy person).

This is Jtank's idea from some time ago. Toribash rules for different aspects of community are general in different boards and FAQ isn't much of a help here as well - sometimes, you don't know where to look for a certain rule.
Therefore, wouldn't it be good to have a small subforum 'Rules', that would include redirects to all the rule threads from different subforums (or simply thread with those rules posted there again)? Such threads would be marked with tags, like [Market] [Events] [Clans], to make it easier for you to navigate and find what you need.