I have also been experiencing this same problem for several months. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
No sure if this was others’ experience, but for me the description duplication does not happen when tested with a WordPress theme. I just submitted a request to SeventhQueen regarding this, while using their “Kleo” theme.
I’m getting the exact same issue. Any updates on how to fix this?
Thankfully, yes I have resolved it …at least for my situation. It appears that this began, when BuddyPress updated to most recent, v2.9.2. I asked SeventhQueen for help and they advised to check for any template overrides in my child theme folder. So, yes I do have a modified “register.php” BuddyPress file. I downloaded a backup of the file and also renamed the current one as “_old”. Then I carefully copied out my modifications. Then I imported the whole updated “register.php” and re-did the custom modifications. Hope this helps.