Over the years I have witnessed the tragic decline of many a useful app and once again I fear I’m seeing this with the latest update to Inoreader. Apps go into decline when the devs have ran out of ideas or have simply become bored with their creations, and this is usually signalled with an update that completely overhauls the app but adds no additional functionality, no improved UX, just change for, well, the sake of change. It seems Inoreader has now reached that point. And the changes made in this latest update are not even original, as it now looks to me like a clone of the Feedly GUI and to be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Feedly devs aren’t considering their legal options for filing an IPR infringement case.Inoreader worked beautifully because it had a layout that made sense. What you had with Inoreader was an original layout that had all your curated feeds in a left hand sidebar. This sidebar was locked in view meaning with just your left and right thumb, you could scan and skim your feeds quickly, easily and efficiently. Now we have sliding sidebars coming at you from from the left and right, a jarring high-contrast, monochrome colour scheme (we’re not all visually impaired you know, although I’m guessing there may be many more with eye strain from using this app), feed titles in list view are stretched across the screen, and many more minor ‘improvements’ (extra bold fonts!?) that detract from the overall experience. It wouldn’t be so bad if the layout was customisable or configurable, but no, it’s this or nothing.Going on previous experience, devs never roll back unpopular changes so for me, I’m off to find a replacement feed reader. I only recommend apps that I use and that I find useful. Unfortunately, I’ll now be recommending another RSS reader.