> Reading chat logs is probably like attempting to read the transcript of your family holiday dinner. It would be nonsense. You’d have no sense of time, no sense of delay, no sense of conversational flurry, etc.

This reminds me of a private virtual event I put on a few years ago which was done entirely over real-time text. There were a few people who wanted to be there, but wound up having a time conflict, so I set up to make a recording of the event—including timestamps, and providing a way to play it back correctly timed (optionally modulated by a speed control). It seemed to get a good reception.