All of the use cases for this, Slack more or less solves, which Events being a Slack integration away. That being said, outside of the HN Community and outside

All of the use cases for this, Slack more or less solves, which Events being a Slack integration away. That being said, outside of the HN Community and outside of Tech savvy companies who know and prefer Slack, it's not completely useless. It's sure as hell better than Email groups and Calendar events in my opinion.