I'm quite sure that the STATUS fields were never correctly populated on that forum because the subscription system was missing the unwritten scripts that would add that data. Scripts that have since been added to UBB.threads 7.6.2 and newer.

I'll write up some code and add it to a reply here later today, to display some text if the field is empty. This should create a link thats easy to click on for anyone running in to the bug caused by the broken scripts 7.6.1 and older