diff --git a/.drone.jsonnet b/.drone.jsonnet
index be87ffc..bfb47a0 100644
--- a/.drone.jsonnet
+++ b/.drone.jsonnet
@@ -331,10 +331,11 @@ local PipelineDocs = {
       name: 'link-validation',
       image: 'thegeeklab/link-validator',
       commands: [
-        'link-validator --nice --external --skip-file .linkcheckignore',
+        'link-validator --color=always --rate-limit 10',
       ],
       environment: {
         LINK_VALIDATOR_BASE_DIR: 'docs/public',
+        LINK_VALIDATOR_RETRIES: '3',
       },
     },
     {
diff --git a/.drone.yml b/.drone.yml
index 04d9cb7..25c3ef7 100644
--- a/.drone.yml
+++ b/.drone.yml
@@ -499,9 +499,10 @@ steps:
   - name: link-validation
     image: thegeeklab/link-validator
     commands:
-      - link-validator --nice --external --skip-file .linkcheckignore
+      - link-validator --color=always --rate-limit 10
     environment:
       LINK_VALIDATOR_BASE_DIR: docs/public
+      LINK_VALIDATOR_RETRIES: 3
 
   - name: build
     image: thegeeklab/hugo:0.97.3
@@ -641,6 +642,6 @@ depends_on:
 
 ---
 kind: signature
-hmac: 84c98d056567b4358d8c441130bd567d94c3e5d5602f50b8b7d4073005d55d15
+hmac: 7c5a7df28735f2fa0d8edc78cfa1a2b9da96e4f1e4bb422635deb4eb3a1763be
 
 ...
diff --git a/.linkcheckignore b/.linkcheckignore
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000