Okay, so, what happens is you'll go through an introduction on how to have bold and italic and put pictures and so forth on a thread. When you go onto the home page for the community website, what happens is you'll be able to look at numerous 'categories'. There are quite a few genre categories - the main genres, generally. There are a few other categories, such as improving your writing, multimedia content, and so forth. One such category is called the Cafe and is a 'club' - I suppose - for really anything, just general chatting and topics and so forth. It's a good place to be active in a conversation, although it can be daunting to put yourself out there. On the other hand, you can go to clubs such as Improve Your Writing or even just your genre itself. Within those clubs, there are numerous topics (also called threads) which are simply numerous messages from different users talking about something, usually, it follows an actual topic and can go elsewhere - akin to a normal conversation in that manner. Nevertheless, whatever club you try to talk on, you'll find that it's a great place to meet undiscovered writers and get help and so forth. You can even have someone read your book and offer advice and reviews and so forth.
Thanks for adding A Dragon's View to your reading list as well!