To add my 2 cents:
Yes, I am sorry that DoT did not reached the end that the author planned. Yes, I am a reader that looks every day for an update. No, I did not asked for the next chapter. No, I did not encouraged the author to comment on his work (for which I am sorry, I'll try to do better).
Writing, and in this particular case creative writing, is not something an author does easily.
So, Dan, I am sorry that you needed to stop DoT this way. It is your decision and from what you said about it, I think the right one.
But please keep writing the other stories, because I, and with me many readers, enjoy your stories.
Ran Od