From what I have seen from all the games I follow on this page, all of them except this one update the first page every time there is some update to reflect this.It's not like the site has say a "Search" feature Nope, just google for sloths that can't be asked to read.
The first page will give you details about what is generally going on.
The last page tends to have recent discussion and problems.
Unless a problem is truly unique there is a good chance similar cases can be found via a simple search.
"On Hold" and "Abandoned" are more housekeeping so I wouldn't rely too heavily on those. I've seen a few instances of games getting marked "Abandoned" because people didn't care to check the developer's website to see if "On Hold" was justified. While other games should have been marked "Abandoned" but they had simply been long forgotten in a never ending pile of new content.
"On Hold" probably isn't the best for this as it just recently shown signs of life from ToroToro with 2.35 which added new content.
The main page download links might be updated, but all the other info is outdated and the last info update on translation is from dargoth.
And the translation link still links to page 50 to a comment from 31 of May of last year.
this thread is really awful on keeping the main post updated.