If you like, we could chat, although I still don't see how to access the chat.
fwiw:
I'm not much of a "chat" kind of person, so I haven't used that functionality, so the following is based purely on observation, not actual experience.
CAVEAT 1: Currently chat is locked down until specific (but not publically known) criteria are met. There's been some allusion to an account over a certain age and a minimum number of posts. (Based on the age of both of your accounts, I suspect you'll both have to wait at least a few weeks. In the meantime, actively participate in the forums.)
CAVEAT 2: I've seen mentions that a user who has access can start a chat, but if the other user does not already have chat access, that chat simply doesn't exist in any form for them. (Aka, the initiating user is simply chatting into a void.)
I've seen two ways that it appears someone can start a chat with another user.
The first option that I've seen for individuals, is on their profile. When I try to view both your's and
@gnarly's profiles, they show up as "This member limits who may view their full profile." so this option clearly won't work.
The second option is after you click the speech bubbles icon (on my mobile view, that's in the upper-right corner, between the lightning icon and the search icon) and once there, there's a "Private Conversations" section, with and an icon to the right side that allows you to add new people to the conversation.
