If you just want to blow off steam, go for it! It doesn't matter where you post or what anybody else thinks. If you're looking for more readers and community interaction, it will depend on what kinds of things you're interested in. fanfiction.net is certainly the largest archive, but it's just one of hundreds, and a lot of people post fic to LJ or Dreamwidth or other places. I hate to rain on your friend's parade, but fanfic.me looks pretty dire to me (though YMMV). They key qualities in a place to post fanfic are either audience or ease of use, neither of which I see on fanfic.me.
Beta readers can be fantastic content editors or nitpicky line editors or your friend who means well but can't edit to save her life. It just depends on what you need and who you get to beta. Different readers will have different opinions on how necessary a beta is and what it says if your story doesn't list one in the headers.
If I were you, I'd sign up for Yuletide this year. It attracts a lot of people who write the occasional take on a fairytale or missing scene from 19thC lit in addition to people who write fic all the time and who are hooked into a specific fandom culture.
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If you just want to blow off steam, go for it! It doesn't matter where you post or what anybody else thinks. If you're looking for more readers and community interaction, it will depend on what kinds of things you're interested in. fanfiction.net is certainly the largest archive, but it's just one of hundreds, and a lot of people post fic to LJ or Dreamwidth or other places. I hate to rain on your friend's parade, but fanfic.me looks pretty dire to me (though YMMV). They key qualities in a place to post fanfic are either audience or ease of use, neither of which I see on fanfic.me.
Beta readers can be fantastic content editors or nitpicky line editors or your friend who means well but can't edit to save her life. It just depends on what you need and who you get to beta. Different readers will have different opinions on how necessary a beta is and what it says if your story doesn't list one in the headers.
If I were you, I'd sign up for Yuletide this year. It attracts a lot of people who write the occasional take on a fairytale or missing scene from 19thC lit in addition to people who write fic all the time and who are hooked into a specific fandom culture.