Members App, Doesn't seem to play well with textarea's

register.html

<perch:form id="register" method="post" app="perch_members" type="default">
    <div>
        <perch:label for="first_name">First name</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="text" id="first_name" required="true" label="First name" />
        <perch:error for="first_name" type="required">Please add your name</perch:error>
    </div>
    <div>
        <perch:label for="last_name">Last name</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="text" id="last_name" required="true" label="Last name" />
        <perch:error for="last_name" type="required">Please add your name</perch:error>
    </div>
    <div>
        <perch:label for="email">Email</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="email" id="email" required="true" placeholder="you@company.com" helper="PerchMembers_Members::check_email" />
        <perch:error for="email" type="required">Please add your email address</perch:error>
        <perch:error for="email" type="helper">That email address is already in use</perch:error>
    </div>
    <div>
        <perch:label for="password">Password</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="password" id="password" required="true" match-with="password2" />
        <perch:error for="password" type="required">Please add a password</perch:error>
        <perch:error for="password" type="match">Passwords do not match</perch:error>
    </div>
    <div>
        <perch:label for="password2">Password again</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="password" id="password2" required="true" />
        <perch:error for="password2" type="required">Please repeat your password</perch:error>
    </div>
    <div>
        <perch:label for="directions">Directions to your home.</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="text" id="directions" required="true" label="Directions to your home" />
        <perch:error for="directions" type="required">Please add a your directions</perch:error>
    </div>
    <div>
        <perch:input type="submit" value="Register" />
    </div>
    <perch:success>
        <p>Thanks!</p>
    </perch:success>
</perch:form>

saves in database as {"first_name":"Silly","last_name":"Me","directions":"Go west 250 feet"}

member.html

<perch:members type="text" id="first_name" label="First name" listing="true" order="1" />
<perch:members type="text" id="last_name" label="Last name" listing="true" order="2" />
<perch:members type="textarea" id="directions" label="Directions to Home" required="true" />

saves in database as {"first_name":"Silly","last_name":"Me","directions":{"_flang":"plain","raw":"Go west 250 feet","processed":"Go west 250 feet"}}

...but then the directions field is empty after admin save, yet the database is updated as seen above.

Perch Runway: 3.0b8, PHP: 5.6.23, MySQL: mysqlnd 5.0.11-dev - 20120503 - $Id: 76b08b24596e12d4553bd41fc93cccd5bac2fe7a $, with PDO
Server OS: WINNT, apache2handler
Installed apps: content (3.0b8), assets (3.0b8), categories (3.0b8), perch_forms (1.9), perch_members (1.5), ketterus_collections (2.0)
App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = [ 'perch_members', 'perch_forms', 'ketterus_collections' ];
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
PERCH_PATH: D:\xampp\htdocs\perch
PERCH_CORE: D:\xampp\htdocs\perch\core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: D:\xampp\htdocs\perch\resources
Image manipulation: GD
PHP limits: Max upload 500M, Max POST 8M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 8M
F1: 4d9310cb3334aecba6deb7af73647aaf
Resource folder writeable: Yes
HTTP_HOST: ketter.local
DOCUMENT_ROOT: D:/xampp/htdocs
REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

Sorry, I sent the info for the wrong server...

Here is the right one, and for what its worth, the problem is exactly the same.

SUMMARY INFORMATION

Perch Runway: 2.8.34, PHP: 7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, MySQL: mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: 241ae00989d1995ffcbbf63d579943635faf9972 $, with PDO
Server OS: Linux, apache2handler
Installed apps: content (2.8.34), assets (2.8.34), categories (2.8.34), perch_members (1.5)
App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = array( 'content', 'categories', 'perch_members', );
PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch
PERCH_PATH: /var/www/html/perch
PERCH_CORE: /var/www/html/perch/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /var/www/html/perch/resources
Image manipulation: GD
PHP limits: Max upload 10M, Max POST 8M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 8M
F1: 6a33f95eca3667f9e0c39bf5ca2980fe
Resource folder writeable: Yes
HTTP_HOST: 45.55.151.65
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html
REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

Drew McLellan said:

Yes, that's a known issue. You can't edit the same data from both sides.

With all the free time you have, you haven't fixed a known issue?? lol :)

OK, as long as I know I didn't break it.

Crazy thing is, text fields work wonderful, but textarea hits a brick wall. I understand why admin stores as array(). This is actually been a known issue for a long time on my part, I just finally got around to asking for conformation.

RK