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It might be risky, but there are a lot of other companies that are doing exactly the same thing and and have shown a great path for newsblur.... (for example, wordpress, sugar-crm, etc).

You can still copy the feature without looking at the code. Sometimes its even preferable.

An export function is hardly the same thing. We're not talking about the concern that an RSS client might go away. There's no shortage of clients. No-one worries too much about those. The concern is what happens when the service goes away.