Hard fork 25 happened practically without a serious glitch, as far as I know. I wouldn't call the curation reset thing a serious glitch. Although I'm sure some will jump to profit from it, while others will try to make it hard for them. But regardless of what happens in a short time frame, it will go away on its own in a few days, so it needs no fixing.
One of the new features introduced by HF25 is to be able to convert Hive to HBD. Previously, only the reverse action was possible, to convert HBD to Hive. But with the new addition, conversion becomes a two-way street.
Now, for those new or not really interested in the inner-workings of the Hive blockchain, conversion is not the same as exchanging or swapping.
Conversion is a process that takes time. 3.5 days to be exact. It also doesn't take the current price of HBD, but an average (median) price. For the Hive -> HBD conversion, the formula is actually
min(3 day price average, worst case price in last hour) + a 5% fee
The 5% fee on this operation is to encourage the use of normal HBD market trading. Normal market trading is in fact needed by this mechanism, in order to have the price discovery it requires. So there needs to be an inherent bias towards use of the internal exchange built into Hive (or Hive markets on external exchanges) versus using the conversion operation.
So, let's make it a simple decision process, if you'd like to choose between the two options: trading or converting.
1. Do you want to keep it simple? Trade Hive for HBD, if/when you like the price and there is enough liquidity to fill in your order. You can use the internal market or one of the exchanges where HBD is listed (Hive should also be listed).
2. Do you need to exchange a small amount of Hive for HBD immediately? Trade it! Conversion takes time and you don't know the price when you initiate the conversion.
3. Do you want to turn a large amount of Hive into HBD without wanting to worry about existing liquidity or creating volatility in the market? Converting Hive to HBD is a solution, if you don't mind waiting for a few days until it's completed, and the 5% fee that is applied on top of the determined average price.
4. Is HBD valued significantly above 1.05$ (preferably still on a rising trend)? That may be an opportunity to arbitrage, and convert Hive to HBD, then sell HBD on the market.
As the final words, a piece of advice. It is best to only use conversion (in both directions), if you understand it. It's not very complicated, but the fact it takes time to complete and that the price is determined at the end of the interval as a median or average, makes it an operation less likely to usually need than the regular trading.