I had zero experience with internet communities before joining the forums, and had a tendency to lurk at even the most productive of discussions. I lurked without an account for a year before deciding that I felt comfortable enough with posting my first WIP.
To echo the other people, this is one of the friendliest and most progressive forums on the internet, and people here also genuinely care about seeing these stories improve and come to life.
The feedback on the forum has helped me with the problems glaringly obvious to other people but which are invisible to me. Feedback also helped me a lot with character development, and this forum is mostly the reason I started to step out of my comfort zone when writing. On the other hand, this forum also introduced me to many concepts and communities that I wouldn’t even have heard of if I hadn’t read the forum. The friendliness and respect of this forum is unique in my experience of the internet.
Don’t be discouraged if your work or topic doesn’t get a lot of attention at first. Odds are a lot of people are lurking and watching it, even if they don’t speak up about it. As a former lurker, I know there were many brilliant WIPs that I never had the courage to comment on.