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BuddyPress does not support plain permalinks.

I see this is hardcoded in ./bp-members/bp-members-template.php …

The gettext calls in that file all use the Text Domain: buddypress.
iow. they refer to the buddypress.pot file.
For example: _n( 'Viewing %1$s - %2$s of %3$s member', 'Viewing %1$s - %2$s of %3$s members', $members_template->total_member_count, 'buddypress' )
Note the ‘buddypress’ in that example.

I can’t spot anything in the PO language file…

Search the .pot file for Viewing %1$s - %2$s of %3$s member and you will find results.

There is lots of info on how to use a language file.
Specific to BuddyPress:

Customizing Labels, Messages, and URLs

It’s possible to overload the members-loop.php file for your BP theme and remove that element.

I explain it here – https://buddypress.org/support/topic/member-directory/

Ok, then the next step is to go through the standard debugging steps by deactivating all other plugins apart from BuddyPress and see if registration works then, if it’s still the same try switching to the 2017 theme and test again.

Ah, that’s not the right way to do it, by doing that next time BuddyPress get’s updated your customisations will be over-written. The official way f doing it is to overload it by copying the file to the child theme directory and then editing it.

What you can do is download a fresh copy of BuddyPress and retrieve the original file.

Also see https://codex.buddypress.org/themes/theme-compatibility-1-7/a-quick-look-at-1-7-theme-compatibility/

Did you put the edited file in you child-theme? themes/childtheme/buddypress/members/register.php?

If so you can simply rename this to something like register.old and the default register.phph will be picked up.

I am having the same issue that just started recently. Our site is still in development so only Beta testing comments.

NOTE: When I first add a comment it ‘nests’ and looks fine in the comment hierarchy also showing ‘Comments (1)’. When I refresh the page the comment is moved to the top of the activity feed and becomes it’s own post. The original post commented on shows ‘Comments (0).

I’ve been looking all around the BP support topics and tried the following troubleshooting:
• Activated a separate theme clean theme (Twenty Sixteen), same issue.
• Deactivated JetPack which had caused issues with BP previously, same issue.
• Checked Settings > Discussion > Enable threaded (nested) comments, deactivate and reactivated.
• Found these two discussions but wasn’t able to fix. https://buddypress.org/support/topic/improve-comments-in-activity-stream/ & Try database reset? https://buddypress.org/support/topic/replies-disappear-when-i-try-to-reply-on-activity-stream-page/page/2/#post-95758
• There is reference that this may be a corrupt database but not sure how to even start testing or resolving that.

Thank all for any help!

Yes that’s do-able, it involes over-riding one of the BuddyPress template files.

First you need to know which BP Template you are using by looking in Settings/BuddyPress/Options and check the template setting, it will either be Legacy or Nouveau.

You also need to have a child theme do you have one set up?

Depending on the BP theme, you would create a directory in wp-content/themes/child-theme/buddypress/members

Then you would copy wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-templates/bp-legacy or bp-nouveau/buddypress/members/members-loop.php over to this directory.

From there you can edit the members-loop.php file and replace the unwanted items with items you could like.

That’s the general idea.