Doc (and eleuthria) ...
Real time figures would surely give people reassurance that 'payment things' are happening in the background, to give them reassurance.
Newbies and some others need to understand/learn the way shifts work. The suggestion is people need to see the shifts column populated with some kind of dynamic data to help them out/understand.
I'm not a programmer, but I know I like straight facts. Is it possible to show 'shifts' in progress' as they slowly crystallize into fact?
Yeah, I was just thinking it would be cool to have an animation of coins flying from the new block and landing on the 10 shifts.

Really? LOL
And yes, today has been a good day to have your miners pointed at BitMinter. A 50 minute block was ... well ... so welcome!