One of the nice things I've found about being published by a small press with a big online presence is that I still get a lot of feedback from readers -- a lot more than I did in my fanfic days, in fact. :-) I got into fanfic at a time when (in my fandom at least) it was still heavily zine-based, but the tradition of Letters Of Comment was dying out. And the odd thing was that what little comment I did get was more to do with stuff published in zines than the occasional one I had online. But this is fairly unusual, and even in my situation there'd be half a dozen people I could send it to privately, and know I'd get feedback from them.