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Maybe. Traffic remains down, especially on boards that are primarily used for "general" threads. Some specific recurring threads might not be coming back to those boards, i.e. /vt/'s Phase Connect ALiAS and Invaders thread, while others such as Girls' Frontline General on /vg/ were ghost towns for the first couple days back but are now split across 4 and 8 with active threads on both and could either stay that way and diverge into separate communities or merge back to one or the other. If they merge again, it's almost certainly going to be back to the 4chan thread--8chan has had stability issues in the past and continues to have them while dealing with the new traffic, and they've even had to repeatedly hop URLs to successor sites owned by entirely different people before. They've kept a lot of users across those jumps, but it's specifically the users who are committed to the idea of "I'll build my own 4chan, with blackjack and hookers", not so much people who are sticking around for the volume and quality of active discussion.
8chan basically only gains users by way of 4chan users getting frustrated because they feel there's too much or too little moderation (or the occasional death of another alt-*chan driving refugees there) and its core userbase is stuck on the idea of being "the real 4chan", so they're in 4chan's shadow as long as they're still alive and those core users can have an offputting kind of inferiority complex--a decade after GamerGate, they're still bringing up 4chan in discussions just so they can call it "halfchan" or "4cuck". And since boards are made by just anybody and there aren't really any long-time administrators to be held accountable to, there's always the chance a board owner gets a wild hair up his ass and decides to start banhammering people for offenses so minor even the worst 4chan janitors wouldn't bother with it... or they could just vanish entirely and leave their board in chaos. If that happens, people will split off again. Then users will have to choose between somebody making yet another new board to flee to or going back home to the house of Yotsuba.