No, Reddit threatened to replace all mods who didn’t open back up. Since a lot of mods spent sometimes upwards of a decade building their communities, they preferred to reopen with barebones effort rather than hand it over to people with zero experience (who were likely looking to exploit the communities for personal/financial gain).

I left mine closed as long as possible, got tons of hate DMs and people harassing me in various other subreddits, then eventually opened back up with one additional mod who does all of the actual moderation. I check modmail every other day or so through old.reddit to make sure things are functioning and to show some mod activity so I can’t be removed… just in case Reddit doesn’t suck at some point in the future.

I’ve commented 3 times in the last 4 months in subreddits totally unrelated to the one I “run”. I used to try and reply to every single post in my community, which was a pretty easy task in Apollo. If Apollo was like running through ankle deep water, the official app is like trudging through a waist deep swamp. It’s awful and I hate it. How are reddit employees not totally ashamed of the work they put out and embarrassed by the company they work for?

I'm just amazed at our inability to keep to our word, why would any company care to reconsider their decisions if even highly informed and agitated consumers go right back to them?