@justforthelulz : ... What is the point in that though? I thought publication status referred to the translations here. It didn't even occur to me it might refer to the original source material simply because that is irrelevant AND misleading and there would be no point even bothering to mention it.
@FireCamp : The last chapter thing would be fine, as long as a specific tag was added to mark it as the last. Yeah, it would be open to someone sabotaging the system by uploading a chapter marked as the last without everything inbetween.... but frankly that would be kinda puerile, and probably identified and dealt with pretty quickly due to its obviousness. In any case, a system like that would be more useful than none at all....
I get that some things are impractical to implement for technical reasons. Got that when I raised the topic of manga length on the forums... so I'm guessing all the redundant popularity metrics and the like that ARE included are just there because they were easy? It isn't as if they're in any way useful nor informative.